Proposals to change NHS services in South London are one step closer to a public consultation after a vote by Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group. One of the proposals would see Croydon University Hospital downgraded to a “local hospital”, meaning replacement of its accident and emergency unit with an urgent care…
Figures published by Public Health England (PHE) reveal that Hackney has the highest level of measles in London. This comes as a national catch-up programme is launched to encourage MMR vaccinations as cases of measles continue to rise across the country. The PHE statistics claim that there have been twenty-eight…
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At a meeting at Goldsmiths College on Thursday April 26 , speakers from the health professions and the local community restated their commitment to protect Lewisham Hospital services from being downgraded. Contributions at the meeting were made from invited guests and members of the public. Speakers sought to make connections…
Campaigners have mounted a legal challenge of the Government decision to downgrade Lewisham Hospital’s maternity and emergency services. The challenge, made on March 12 by activist group Save Lewisham Hospital, relates specifically to Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt’s justification of the January decision. Jos Bell, spokesperson for the organisation, told…
Mayor of London Boris Johnson brought People’s Question Time to Catford last night, a biannual event that allows Londoners to interact with him and members of the London Assembly. By around 6pm, hundreds of people had formed a queue that snaked around the Catford Broadway theatre. A red carpet of Save…
A special ‘stop smoking’ drive has this week been launched to target smokers in Hackney, where the percentage of adult smokers is higher than that of the capital and the nation. One in four Hackney residents are smokers, compared with just under 19 per cent in London and 20 per…
One in every 130 people in Tower Hamlets is tested as HIV positive, five times higher than the national average, according to a report by the Health Protection Agency. This is an increase from one in every 200 in 2002. The National AIDS Trust is lobbying for government spending to…
Campaigners, GPs and local MPs rallied outside Lewisham Hospital today, in a bid to determine how best to save the services they are set to lose from their A&E and maternity units. Residents met at the war memorial adjacent to the hospital to hear speeches led by local GP Dr Louise Irvine,…
Tower Hamlets councillors and doctors have pledged to “retain the founding values” of the NHS in response to health service reforms from central government. The Tower Hamlets pledge follows the national NHS pledge; a campaign by the shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham against the Health and Social Care Bill 2012.…
Lewisham Council has given the Government until February 22 to withdraw its decision to downgrade Lewisham A&E before they seek to challenge the decision in court.…
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