Health

Save our Hospitals Marches On

April 29, 2013
Ealing RALLY

There was a fantastic turnout for the Save our Hospitals Rally in Ealing on Saturday, proving that the campaign to prevent the closure of our A&Es is not going away, but getting stronger, as more and more people find out just how disastrous these plans are. In front of a crowd that organisers described as [...]

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Save Our Hospitals – Rally

April 4, 2013
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  The Save Our Hospitals campaign will be holding a rally on Saturday the 27th of April. The Hammersmith end of the march will gather at Acton Park at 12:30 and we will gather with the Ealing campaigners at Ealing Common for 2:00pm.

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Hands Off our Hospitals – Public Meeting

April 4, 2013
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On Wednesday the 17th of April there will be a public meeting held at Ruskin Hall on Church Road, Acton. The meeting starts at 7:45pm. I will be speaking at the meeting as will John Lister, a national campaigner for the NHS.

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eNews January 2013

January 30, 2013

Jan 2013 News from Westminster and Hammersmith     By-Election In White City The Most Lucrative Traffic Camera in Britain? Police Cuts – Question the Deputy The Great FireCut of London Nash Cash Saloon Bar Debate Betting Shops Hospitals Update Planning   By-Election in White City and Wormholt The council by-election in Wormholt and White [...]

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Meeting to Launch NHS Closures

June 23, 2012

              From next April most of the familiar parts of the NHS will disappear to be replaced by Andrew Lansley’s new Commissioning Boards.  Ostensibly run by local GPs, these will in fact be anonymous bodies spread across London staffed by bureaucrats and supported by privatised services.  For instance, the [...]

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Hammersmith & Fulham to lose both its Accident & Emergency Departments

June 22, 2012

          Government NHS cuts will mean that Accident & Emergency  departments at Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross will close, leaving the borough with no A&E department. This shocking announcement was slipped out on Thursday evening ahead of a meeting of NHS Northwest London on Monday. Ealing and Central Middlesex A&Es are [...]

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Article for Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle 16th September

September 12, 2011

(This article will be published in the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle, 16th September) So is Charing Cross really under threat of closure? The Independent seemed sure of their facts when they put it on the front page a week ago. But Imperial’s denial, reported here, was equally firm. We have been here before. In the [...]

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NHS “reforms” paused

April 11, 2011

I’ve been responding to the hundreds of email and letters I’ve received about the Tories’ plans to privatise and carve up the NHS, and it was one of the topics raised when I did the politics hour on LBC this week, for the first time in some months. Three months ago Clegg was boasting that [...]

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Reviewing the First 100 Days

August 31, 2010

I was doing an hour’s political discussion on LBC last week, something I quite often do, but this was a special on the Coalition’s first 100 days, with Tory blogger Ian Dale standing in for Petrie Hosken as presenter. So with a Tory and Lib Dem politico and a Tory referee it felt a bit [...]

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An Unhealthy Relationship with the Truth

March 15, 2010

For five years and in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary Hammersmith & Fulham Tories have prophesied the closure of all or part of Charing Cross Hospital.  In a debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday 9th March, Greg Hands MP appeared to extend this scare to include Hammersmith and St Mary’s, [...]

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