Mayor Sir Steve Bullock said he would not let plans to close Lewisham Hospital go ahead this week without a fight. At a meeting at Goldsmiths on Tuesday, organised by the Goldsmiths’ Labour Party, he said: “If Jeremy Hunt goes forward with the decision of closing the hospital on Thursday…
This is the live blog from 31/01/13, it is now ended. In a long awaited statement on local hospital services, Jeremy Hunt, The Secretary of State for Health, announced in Parliament today that Lewisham Hospital A&E will be reduced in size by a quarter and maternity services will become midwife…
The maternity ward at Croydon University Hospital is to receive funding and refurbishment amid fears that the ward could be closed down. Croydon Health Services has been awarded just over £300,000 of a £25 million government fund to improve birthing environments. The money will go to refurbish and expand…
Local Lewisham rappers and the NHS choir are releasing a music video today in support of the Save Lewisham A&E Campaign. Featuring local rapper Question Musiq and The Lewisham Healthcare NHS Choir the video also features Millwall players sporting ‘Save Lewisham A&E’ t-shirts worn during the warm up before their recent Championship match against Burnley. [...]
At least 25,000 protesters marched from Central Lewisham to Mountsfield Park to demonstrate against proposals to close Lewisham Hospital’s A&E department. Eastlondonlines followed the protest throughout the day. LBCs Nick Ferrari along with hospital consultant Dr John O’Donohue welcomed the demonstrators to Mountsfield Park and introduced key medical speakers including Dr Chidi Ejifomo…
Up to 25,000 people marched through Lewisham to protest against the planned closure of Lewisham A&E. Nick Ferrari from LBC and Heidi Alexander amongst other gave speeches at the end of the march in Mountsfield Park. Among the protesters were Eastlondonlines reporters who have been reporting live from the day…
Doctors in Hackney are to launch a community benefit society with the aim of taking back the running of general practice out-of-hours services. City & Hackney Urgent Healthcare Social Enterprise (CHUHSE) will be launched on April 2, 2013. The planned changes would see responsibility for urgent and out-of-out hours care…
Local MP Heidi Alexander brought the campaign to save Lewisham A&E to Westminster today, in a bid to push the campaign to the forefront of political consideration. Addressing ministers, Alexander said: “Children who are hurt, the elderly who have had a bad fall; they don’t disappear into thin air, they…
School pupils in some of London’s poorest areas, including Hackney, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets, are to receive free breakfasts as part of an initiative set up by the Mayor’s Fund for London. The healthy eating scheme was launched on January 8 and will run in partnership with the charity Magic…
Angry residents are planning to picket the filming of BBC’s Question Time at Goldsmiths this Thursday, in protest against proposals which have raised concerns that “no hospital is safe.” Members of the Lewisham branch of Keep Our NHS Public have organised a rally outside the university building to demonstrate against…
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