Last Chance Saloon! - Save King George Hospital!

Images of Wilson speaking at the last protest March attended by 170 people.

After much pestering and wholehearted belligerence, we have managed to convince Redbridge Primary Care Trust (the body responsible for our local hospital facilities), to provide an opportunity for face to face communication with the people of Chadwell, Seven Kings and Goodmayes.

The meeting will be held from 19:30 on Thursday 18th March, at Somerville Hall, Somerville Road (opposite First Avenue - A12 end!)

Local Councillors have not really availed themselves of this opportunity and like always, everyone -including your incumbent Councillors, have forgotten that Chadwell is a part of Redbridge. This will be the only consultation exercise held within a ward that borders the hospital?

I am sure that many of you will agree that in previous years, you would not have had this opportunity.

Please come out and encourage others, as it is imperative that we let the PCT know how we feel about their diabolical proposals. If successful the North East London Healthcare proposals could see the end to any A&E in Barking & Dagenham and Redbridge - despite major opposition and rapidly increasing populations. Moreover, the loss of maternity services will create a loss of local identity to many Redbridge children born in Havering, in tandem with an increasing travel, financial and stress burden on potential mothers.

This will be the last consultation meeting regarding the proposal, held by the PCT, before the closure of the consultation period on the 22nd March 2010 – so we are very fortunate.

At 12:00 on the final date of the consultation process, a 6 person delegation to 10 Downing Street, has been selected, to present the petition that we have created on-line and in hard copies (at the numerous King George Hospital protests). This will be addressed to the Secretary of State for Health MP Andy Burnham and the Prime Minister. A copy is also to be presented to the PCT on the same day.

Sign our on line petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-king-george-hospital/

After this a final protest march is to be held on the 17th April 2010 from the green at Little Heath to Ilford Town Centre, starting at 12:00.