DEFEND LONDON'S NHS
WEEK OF ACTION 09-16
FEBRUARY
HOSPITAL CAMPAIGNS UNITE TO CALL ON GOVERNMENT TO SAVE LONDON’S NHS
An unprecedented
coalition of London residents, NHS staff, trade unions and health
campaigners has come together to raise the alarm regarding the biggest threats
to A & E’s, maternity units and in-hospital care for a generation.
Closures planned
across the capital include nine accident and emergency departments, a number of
maternity units and thousands of hospital beds that campaigners believe
will put lives at risk.
Tens of thousands of
Londoners have protested and demonstrated to save their local hospitals in
recent months. 80,000 signed a petition against the closures in North West
London. 25,000 took to the streets in January to defend Lewisham hospital.
The government haven't listened, though they are clearly rattled.
First Jeremy Hunt pretends to save Lewisham A&E, and now the Tory
council in Hammersmith claim to have "saved" Charing Cross hospital.
Local health workers and campaigners can see through these attempts to
divert our campaigns to save London's health service.
In a new move, these
campaigns have joined up in a coalition to campaign to call on the government
to stop these closures.
They
plan to work together to undermine what they believe are the government’s
divisive tactics of playing one hospital off against another. Instead they are
demanding that the government provide the funding needed for safe levels of
care across the capital. Doctors
will challenge the notion that planned closures are clinically led, as
increasing numbers of clinicians speak out against the damaging impact these
cuts will have on patient care.
The campaign is being
launched with a week of action across London from 09 - 16 February.
The week-long actions
will include protests, a singing flash mob, candle lit vigils, rallies and demonstrations.
Joint Press Conference
Monday 11 February House of Commons
Those attending include: Andy Slaughter MP (Hammersmith), Dr Louise Irvine, Chair Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, Dr Onkar Sarota, Chair Save Ealing Hospital Campaign, Shirley Franklin, Chair Defend Whittington Hospital Coalition, John Lister, Frank Wood Chair Unite the Union Health Regional committee, Julie Reay, Save Kingston Hospital campaign
Save Ealing
Hospital Candle lit vigil
Saturday
09 February 5-6.30pm Ealing Hospital
Central
Middlesex Hospital Candle lit vigil
Saturday
09 February 5pm Central Middlesex Hospital
Defend
Whittington Hospital Public Meeting
Tuesday
12 February 7.30pm Archway Methodist Hall, Archway Close N19
Speakers
include Jeremy Corbyn, David Lammy, Frank Dobson & Emily Thornberry
http://dwhc.org.uk/
Valentine
Day card for Ealing hospital
Thursday
14 February Handed in to NHS NW London
Save
Lewisham Hospital Rally
Friday
15 February 1pm Lewisham Hospital
Defend
the NHS Singing Flash Mob
Friday
15 February 5.45pm A central London station
Hammersmith
and Charing Cross Hospitals Campaign Protest March
Saturday
16 February 12 noon Lyric Square King Street
Kingston
Save Our Hospitals Demonstration
Saturday
16 February 12 noon Norbiton Station march to Guildhall
Defend
Whittington Hospital Action
Saturday
16 February Holloway Road N19
Ealing
Hospital Action
Saturday
16 February 12 noon Ealing Broadway shopping centre
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