Lewisham Hospital is back in the firing line after parliament voted last night to give the health secretary powers to close local hospitals – a clause inserted after Jeremy Hunt’s failure to close Lewisham Hospital. Despite talk of concessions, there’ll now be renewed worries for the future of Lewisham, which now forms a joint NHS […]
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Lewisham Hospital: How you can help the legal challenge
Lewisham Council decided last night to apply for a judicial review into the Government’s decision to downgrade the accident and emergency unit at Lewisham Hospital. You can listen to councillors debate and approve the decision at Clare’s blog – which, I think, is incidentally the first time a blog’s covered goings-on at Lewisham Town Hall. […]
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March again for Lewisham Hospital on Saturday
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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Save Lewisham A&E: Carol’s story
Guest post: Carol Brown explains how Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency ward, under threat of closure, saved her life earlier this year. It is a miracle I am here at all. In January this year, unbeknown to myself and my partner, I was very sick indeed, in fact dangerously so – only hours away from […]
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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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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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