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Scully and Sutton Tories sent scrambling over St Helier plans
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent (recently successfully put out to tender), reports on a growing row in Sutton over the Conservatives’ opaque plans for one of the area’s largest NHS hospitals It started so casually, with Sutton’s two MPs together … Continue reading
Under-threat St Helier only London hospital to hit A&E target
St Helier was the only NHS hospital trust in the capital with an accident and emergency department which actually met its waiting time targets, according to the most recent data available. St Helier, of course, is under constant threat of … Continue reading
NHS Mayday: south London hospitals among 20 on Black Alert
The largest NHS hospitals in Croydon and Sutton have this week had to resort to providing medical care for adults on children’s wards, amid the gathering crisis in England’s healthcare system. The Epsom and St Helier Trust, which manages the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Foxley Lane, Health, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
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Fiddling the figures won’t help to save our NHS
CROYDON COMMENTARY: NHS bureaucrats try to deny that they are planning significant closures to south London’s hospitals, while working on a plan which offers two ‘hypotheses’, neither of which include maintaining all five of the current sites. Here ANDY FORD, … Continue reading
Not one but two south London hospitals now under threat
Just when you thought that Tory cuts to the NHS in this part of London could not get worse, they do. Health correspondent JAMES KILLDARE has seen the secretive STP report which could doom St Helier and St George’s, Tooting … Continue reading
Hunt has secret plans to close Mayday or St Helier hospitals
Our health correspondent, JAMES KILLDARE, on the shocking findings of a report from The King’s Fund, as the Tory dismantling of the NHS gathers pace NHS England has secret plans to close one of five hospitals in south-west London, including … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Tory
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Free screening of NHS film Sell Off, Wallington, Oct 13
Keep Our St Helier Hospital is staging a free screening of the acclaimed documentary, Sell Off, followed by a discussion in Wallington next Thursday, October 13. They say, “St Helier Hospital is under imminent threat of closure, and our NHS … Continue reading
Croydon NHS in urgent need of injection of new funding
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent, reports on a worrying report, much of it due to be discussed in secret at the Town Hall tonight, where wide-ranging cuts are expected to be suggested You might do well to give a miss … Continue reading
Hospital closure plans could put added pressure on Mayday
Plans due to be published next month could see 650,000 extra people in south-west London depending upon the already under-pressure Mayday, Kingston and St George’s hospitals for their urgent and specialist medical care. The Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals … Continue reading
Hospital campaigners stage free screening of NHS film, May 23
Save St Helier Hospital is staging a free screening of Sell Off – The abolition of the NHS at Ruskin House, Coombe Road, Croydon on Monday May 23. The film will be followed by a discussion session.
Sell-Off – The Abolition of the NHS: free screening, Jan 29
The Keep Our St Helier Hospital campaign – KOSHH – and Sutton’s Keep Our NHS Public are staging a free screening of Sell-Off – The Abolition of the NHS, followed by a discussion on Friday, January 29. In Sell-Off, filmmaker … Continue reading
Posted in Health, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, KOSHH, NHS, St Helier Hospital
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A&Es fail to assist police with enquiries on knife crime
John Goulston, the chief executive of Mayday, could find himself summoned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson to explain why Croydon’s biggest hospital has not been helping the police with their enquiries, in a capital-wide scheme intended to help to … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Caroline Pidgeon, Crime, Croydon CCG, Knife crime, London Assembly, Mayday Hospital, Mayor of London, Policing, Purley Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Boris Johnson, Caroline Pidgeon, Conservative, Croydon, Liberal Democrats, London Assembly, Mayday Hospital, Mayor, Purley Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Tory
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Mayday! Tooting A&E closure puts extra strain on Croydon
One of south London’s biggest hospitals had to close its doors to admissions in its Accident and Emergency department last Friday, causing a knock-on effect to other NHS hospitals elsewhere in the capital, including Croydon’s Mayday. It may only be … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Croydon, Mayday Hospital, NHS, NHS Croydon CCG, St Helier Hospital, Sutton
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LibDems accused of bullying blind woman at Clegg rally
Yesterday’s back-firing LibDem rally outside St Helier Hospital has prompted further controversy over allegations that supporters of Nick Clegg acted in an intimidating and bullying manner towards the protestors, including a blind woman. Emily Brothers is Labour’s candidate for Sutton … Continue reading
Nick Clegg feels the heat from anti-incinerator protestors
Nick Clegg, soon to be the ex-Deputy Prime Minister and possibly also soon-to-be an ex-MP and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, was forced to abandon a carefully stage-managed photo-op outside St Helier Hospital in Sutton this afternoon, when protestors from … Continue reading
St Helier campaign’s free screening of NHS Sell Off film, Nov 7
KOSHH – the Keep Our St Helier Hospital campaign group – is staging a free screening and discussion this Friday, November 7, of Sell Off – The abolition of your NHS. The film makers describe the documentary as “radical”, and … Continue reading
St Helier and Mayday’s futures thrown into doubt once more
The clue was in the name. BSBV was supposed to stand for “Better Services Better Value”, but the BS bit gave it away. Yesterday, after three wasted years and £8.2 million of tax-payers’ cash squandered on a politically inspired effort … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Health, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Steve Reed MP
Tagged BSBV, Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, London, Mayday Hospital, Member of parliament, NHS, St Helier Hospital, Steve Reed OBE, Surrey, Tory
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West Croydon worst hit by ticket office closures says Reed
Soon, it seems, there may be no public service buildings in London left open and operating. The future of the accident and emergency services at Mayday and St Helier Hospitals remains in question. After announcing the closure of all but … Continue reading
Ashes to ashes: Only Boris can stop Viridor incinerator now
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Did Sutton’s LibDems last night grant planning permission to Viridor for its £1bn incinerator project at Beddington Lane just so that someone else could make the tough decision to block it? Contributing editor ANDREW PELLING says that nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Business, Croydon Greens, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Outside Croydon, Paul Burstow MP, Planning, Simon Hoar, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Boris Johnson, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, London, Paul Burstow, Sutton, Viridor, Worcester Park
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Should our local hospital be placed in intensive care?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: There is a looming crisis at Mayday Hospital, but according to DAVID CALLAM, our national politicians are failing to do anything about it Privatisation is an overused word, especially in the argument surrounding the future of the National … Continue reading
