Get our local MPs to act on hospital closures and privatisation

In addition to the e-petition calling on Brent Council to fight the closure of Central Middlesex Accident and Emergency, a paper petition has been launched stating the following:

To: NHS NW London, Sarah Teather MP, Glenda Jackson MP, Barry Gardiner MP,

NHS NW London is consulting on proposals which would mean the accident and emergency department at Central Middlesex Hospital, already closed at night, closing for ever. This could be the first step in the downgrading of the hospital, which serves some of the most deprived wards in Brent with the greatest health needs.

We the undersigned demand: 

· The reopening of A & E at Central Middlesex Hospital to provide a full 24 hour emergency service with all necessary back up.

· No cuts to community, mental health or other services. The government can find money for the banks, they should restore the £1billion they are cutting from NW London Health Services.

· An end to privatisation which provides an inferior service for patients and cuts in jobs, pay or worse working conditions for staff, creaming off profits for private companies.
Campaigning organisations will be collecting signatures over the summer and into the autumn. You can run off your own copy using the link below and collect signatures in your workplace or neighbourhood.

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Sign petition for Central Middlesex A&E campaign

 Local resident Carol Foster has launched the e-petition below: Anyone of any age who lives or works in Brent can sign the petition. Follow this LINK

We, the undersigned, petition Brent Council to do all in its power to prevent the closure of the Accident and Emergency Department at Central Middlesex Hospital. This will include making the case against the closure and seeking support for this position on all appropriate bodies on which the council is represented.

SUPPORTING INFORMATION

•  North West London NHS is consulting on proposals in 'Shaping A Healthier Future' which would mean that Central Middlesex Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department, already closed overnight, will close for good. This is likely to be the first step in the complete down-grading of the hospital and its potential closure in the long term.
• The hospital serves some of the most deprived wards of South Brent which have poor transport links with Northwick Park Hospital, the likely alternative A &amp; E.
•  The area is the location of major roads including the North Circular and the Harrow Road; railway lines including the Euston-Birmingham main line, Overground, Bakerloo, Chiltern, Metropolitan and Jubilee lines, a major industrial area in Park Royal; as well as waste management and other potentially pollution causing processing plants in the Neasden area. The area also includes the major venues at Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena.
•  All of the above are potential locations for major incidents necessitating ready access to an Accident and Emergency facility.
•  Ealing Council has already committed itself to actively fighting the proposals and Brent Council should do the same.

Brent Fightback will be distributing postcards in Harlesden this afternoon publicising the September 15th March from Harlesden to Central Middlesex Hospital. Fightback hopes that they will be joined by Brent councillors.

Ealing Council fights for A&E departments

Support for fight for Central Middlesex Hospital

From Brent and Kilburn Times, June 28th 2012

STOP THEM WRECKING OUR HOSPITALS

Healthcare in North West London is being put

UNDER THE KNIFE!

WE HAVE TO STOP THE PLANS TO CUT & WRECK

OUR HOSPITALS ! 

North West London NHS Bosses are launching a “consultation” over plans that could:

ã Cut 5,600 NHS jobs in North West London

ã Close Central Middlesex Hospital’s Accident & Emergency and 3 others

ã Undermine and perhaps close whole hospitals

ã Split up health services ready for privatisation 

If you are interested in helping to build a campaign to stop these plans, please come along to the

Organising meeting

Tuesday, 3^rd July

7.30 p.m.,

Trades Hall, 375 High Road, NW10 2JR

(close to Willesden Bus garage)

Damning report on NW London NHS hospital closure plans

Plans to drastically cut health services are exposed in a hard hitting Report “North West London’s NHS - Under the Knife”, written by John Lister, Director of London Health Emergency.

 

The Report, commissioned by Ealing, Brent and Harrow Trades Union Councils, shows that far from improving or modernising services, the outcome of the NWL NHS plans, “Shaping a Healthier Future” , would inevitably be a massive reduction in both hospital beds and services, without any corresponding increase in alternative provision.

  

Dr Lister states that the proposals “could result in the loss of 1750 NHS jobs in 12 months, and 5,600 jobs by 2015, along with the downgrading and downsizing of many local hospitals and services, and the closure of up to 4 of its 8 A&E units.”

 

Although NWL NHS try to avoid stating which hospitals and A&E Departments are under threat; Dr Lister’s analysis shows that the targets of the cuts are likely to be Ealing, Central Middlesex, Charing Cross and Hammersmith, leaving a massive area of London without A&E provision.

 

He goes on to say that “trendy arguments ... suggesting that new “settings” can deliver services more efficiently and effectively than hospitals: the only snag is that these “settings” and services exist only on paper, lacking the funds, facilities, staff and any political commitment to make them a reality.”

 

Dr Lister will be the headline speaker at the Ealing TUC public meeting on Tuesday 26th June at 7.30pm in Ealing Town Hall.  

The report is posted below:

 

UNDER THE KNIFE

BRENT TRADES UNION COUNCIL

Public Meeting with

Dr John Lister,

London Health Emergency

Candy Udwin,

Chair London Keep Our NHS Public

UNITE Health Union representative

WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 th 7.30 pm

Harlesden Methodist Church

25 Harlesden High St, NW10 4NE

Nr Harlesden Jubilee Clock

Proposed changes to local health services

could mean the merger of Ealing, Northwick

Park and Central Middlesex Hospitals with

the loss of A & E at CMH or Ealing or both

and moving many more services out of

hospitals into the community, opening them

up to the private sector to be run for profit.

Say NO to cuts and privatisation

DEFEND OUR LOCAL HEALTH SERVICES