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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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Emergency Departments in the UK

August 3, 2012

A major part of NHS North West London’s case for removing our A&E departments is that we have too many of them. As they have said themselves: “We have more A&E departments per head of population than other parts of the country and this makes it harder to ensure enough senior staff are available. (Pre-Consultation [...]

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A&E Closures – eNews Special

June 23, 2012

23rd June 2012 eNews Special   GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE BOTH LOCAL ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY UNITS Hammersmith and Charing Cross A&Es to close in Government Plans Effect on Charing Cross will mean closure of hospital Demonstrate in Westminster this Monday 1pm Government NHS cuts and reorganisation will mean that Accident & Emergency  departments at Hammersmith Hospital [...]

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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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NHS Big Weekend

September 8, 2011

Labour members and supporters were out across the country at the weekend collecting signatures on a petition opposing the Coalition’s NHS privatisation and cuts. The Health Bill is back in the Commons this week – and the result of the so-called ‘listening exercise’ is that the Tories’ proposals are going ahead exactly as planned.  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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