Please sign our online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/dwhc/petition.html
Also, we have a hard copy available for download: Whittington petition
If you’re involved in any community activities please print a few off and try to get as many signatures as possible. The address to return petitions to is:
Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition
Whittington Park Community Centre
Yerbury Road
London
N19 4RS
WHAT WE STAND FOR:
* We are opposed to the rundown, closure or privatisation of all hospitals and hospital departments and any other key health services.
* We want to stop the sell-off of our NHS, or bits of it, to private corporations.
* We call for the repeal of the Health and Social Care Act - the government measure which opened the way for big private companies to take over our hospitals and health services and shut them down if they don't make enough profit.
* We call for full funding of our NHS to meet our health needs, free at the point of delivery.
* We want to see a fully funded mental health service that meets the varying mental health needs of our community, in residential or community-based settings.
* We are proud of our caring staff at the Hospital, and welcome the diversity of the staff.
There must be no closure of the Whittington Hospital A&E; NHS London has a duty to improve clincal care for patients not damage existing health care provision for the people of Islington and its environs.
I am really pleased that this strong cross-party coalition has come together to defend the Whittington Hospital. It is vitally important that we act now to protect the A&E department and, more broadly, to defend NHS services against privatisation.