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…
A newborn baby’s first, silence-shattering cry is something that never leaves you. It’s a sound that rings through the corridors of Lewisham Hospital’s maternity unit, where four and a half thousand of London’s babies will be born in the next year alone. There, mothers-to-be are placed in a relaxed environment…
Millwall Football Club have joined the fight to help save Lewisham A&E. The Lions have decided to move Saturday’s FA Cup Fourth Round tie against Aston Villa to Friday night to avoid clashing with the Save the A&E demonstration on Saturday. Millwall staff and Zampa the Lion will be in…
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…
Lewisham MP Heidi Alexander has announced that she has secured a 90 minute parliamentary debate over the recommended closures of Lewisham A&E and maternity unit. Since the proposals to reduce Lewisham’s admitting A&E to a non-admitting urgent care centre were announced by the government-appointed Trust Special Administrator on November 2,…
Fourteen south London MPs met with Jeremy Hunt yesterday to challenge whether the NHS Trust Special Administrator actually has the power to make recommendations that would see the closure of Lewisham Hospital’s A&E department. Heidi Alexander, Labour MP for Lewisham East, met with the secretary of state for health last…
Hundreds of students, hospital workers, residents and union members gathered outside Goldsmiths last night ahead of BBC’s Question Time to protest against the Trust Special Administrator’s final report that advocates closing Lewisham A&E. Helmut Heib, the secretary of Save Lewisham Hospital, led the crowd outside the Richard Hoggart Building in chants that included: “No ifs, [...]
Protesters from the ‘Save Lewisham A&E’ campaign will be fighting to have their questions answered by key political figures when BBC One’s Question Time comes to Goldsmiths, University of London later today. Members of the Lewisham branch of the advocacy group Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) have organised a rally…
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