A little late with this, but you might know about it anyway – the second march to save Lewisham Hospital’s A&E (and by extension, its maternity unit) takes place at noon on Saturday, after the administrator of the PFI-wrecked South London Healthcare Trust decided not to listen to overwhelming evidence and opposition and recommend its […]
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Greenwich Council to oppose Lewisham A&E closure
It’s not the full-throated campaign that some would like to see, but Greenwich Council has finally come out against the proposed closure of Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency department. The council’s response was quietly published on its website yesterday. It says “existing levels of demand” as well as past and projected population growth means it […]
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SE London NHS consultation: Listen to the meetings
In contrast with last night’s meeting in Lewisham, which sounded rather lively (and where security staff reportedly tried to bar journalists), Tuesday’s meeting at The Valley in Charlton was less than half-full, with only about 30-40 people there, with barely a voice raised in anger. A large number of questioners were councillors and members of […]
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Lewisham Hospital: Will the real Labour Party please stand up?
I went along to a public meeting in Eltham last week, and heard the area’s Labour MP Clive Efford absolutely tear into the plans to close the A&E at Lewisham Hospital. He spoke passionately about his wife’s experiences dealing with the private Blackheath Hospital, before turning his attention to what happened at Queen Mary’s in […]
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Save Lewisham’s maternity ward: A mother’s story
Guest post: As well as the accident and emergency unit, Lewisham hospital’s maternity unit is also under threat from the Kershaw report into south-east London’s health services, which suggests that maternity services be carried out at Queen Elizabeth, Princess Royal, King’s College and St Thomas’s Hospitals, with Lewisham listed as only having a “potential” unit. […]
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Thousands march to demand Lewisham A&E stays open
It was no day for a demo. But they came from across south-east London. These placards greeted me when I jumped on a bus in Charlton. When I arrived, twenty minutes before the march started, there were three or four hundred there. When I left, twenty minutes after the march started, there were three or […]
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Greenwich councillors sceptical over Lewisham A&E plans
It was a night when the questions were better than the answers. About 30 demonstrators gathered to greet NHS administrator Matthew Kershaw when he arrived at Woolwich Town Hall on Thursday to take questions from a group of Greenwich councillors about his plans to revamp south-east London’s NHS, including the downgrading of Lewisham Hospital’s A&E […]
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Lewisham A&E under threat – a danger to all SE London
I was going to write a long and involved post about the threat to Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency department, which is threatened with being downgraded under the proposals to clear up the fallout from the South London Healthcare NHS Trust collapse. But frankly, the NHS isn’t my strong point, and the effects of what’s […]
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