Submitted by Dave Morris of Defend Haringey’s Health Services Coaltion; NHS NCL Strategy Plan distributed by Lynne Featherstone MP.
We now have the NHS official proposals for North Central London area. The key pages are pages 79-82 with the ‘7 scenarios’.
Its clearly an attack on the services at all North London’s hospitals, and we have to stick together and resist any ‘divide and rule’ tactics.
All of the scenarios seem to downgrade most of the Hospitals with only one scenario maintaining any of the 6 hospitals as a District General Hospital (Scenario 1 – for Barnet and North Middx).
Re: Whittington specifically:
– All ‘scenarios’ include an ‘Urgent Care Centre’.
– 3 scenarios include full A&E retained, 2 scenarios retain just 16hrs A&E, 2 scenarios have no A&E.
It needs checking carefully… but the battle is well and truly on.
North Central London NHS Strategy Plan 2010 – 2014: Options document
– by Rachel Tyndall, NHS North Central London
Click here to download (.pdf, 2.27 mb)
From the BBC site:
All this week BBC London is looking at health care in the capital from A&E, polyclinics, ambulance services to local surgeries.
There’s not much there but it’s worth a look and they want our comments (the email address is at the bottom of their page.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8491000/8491685.stm
Get emailing!
From Keep Our NHS Public:
25 February: London on the Brink – what is happening to local Health Services?
Organised by the London Regional Council of the British Medical Association (BMA)
Open meeting with Keep Our NHS Public groups, health campaigners, and other health unions
Thursday 25 February 7-9 pm, the Great Hall,
BMA House, Tavistock Square, London W1
John Lister of Health Emergency will present his BMA-commissioned report “London on the Brink”
Join BMA members, other health unions and health campaigners to share information about the changes to the NHS, and map out our joint strategy for the fightback.
To reserve a place contact : info.lrc@bma.org.uk
Click here for poster with full details
We’ll be meeting at Highbury Corner then marching along Holloway Road, to the Whittington for the rally.
A flyer can be downloaded here.
Please spread the word, share the Facebook event in your profile and bring along as many people as possible.
We need to show that we will not accept the closure of the Whittington’s A&E.
Nearest tube: Highbury and Islington.
Bus map of the area from Transport For London (.pdf)
Press coverage and the public meeting of 25th January 2010
Following last Monday’s meeting there has been a fair bit of press coverage, including this article in The Guardian: Hands Off Our A&E.
There have also been a few items in the local press, many naming the DWHC. See the ‘In The Press’ section at the top of this page for more links. Read more…
