Letter to Recorder to plug meeting and walk on 30th March

Letter sent to Recorder earlier today

Dear Sir or Madam

The Ambulatory Care Unit at King George Hospital, which provides same day emergency care for the elderly frail discriminates against the younger patients who are denied care and transferred to Queens.

When challenged about this , NHS managers say that the "low levels of admitted adult patients" at King George justify this discrimination.

This argument does not stand scrutiny. Other hospitals in East London provide ambulatory care for all ages. Worthing Hospital with a high proportion of elderly residents provides ambulatory care for all residents. NHS managers have failed to deliver on a promise to provide a briefing about this discrimination on 21st January.

Without this briefing, it seems reasonable to believe that the discrimination is motivated by the new plan to close King George A&E and turn King George into a centre of excellence for the elderly published in October 2018. Local NHS managers sought £49M funding to implement this new plan to close King George A&E despite committing to a review of the closure in 2017.

There is a walk from King George Hospital at 2pm for a meeting at 3pm Ilford Town Hall on the 30th March to say this new plan to close King George A&E needs to be scrapped and that local NHS managers are not suited to carry out the review into King George as they are biased in favour of closing King George A&E.

Regards

Bob Archer, Secretary Redbridge Trades Council

Nic Dodin, Havering Councillor

Pete Mason, Socialist Party

RoseMary Warrington, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

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