BHRUT misled Department of Health by claims implying Havering Council support plan to close King George A&E

On 24th May I wrote an open letter to Matthew Hopkins and Henry Black to ask about my concerns that they had led the Department of Health to believe a "manufactured a planning consent" had been created in support of the £49M bid to close King George A&E per the link below:

http://savekinggeorgehospital.blogspot.com/2019/05/open-letter-to-matthew-hopkins-henry.html

I wrote on the 24th May

"On the face it, you have manufactured a planning consent that does not exist in order to promote your cause to close King George A&E. However, I stress "on the face of it", as perhaps there is reasonable explanation to conflict between what you have written and the Havering Council website.

I would be grateful if you could supply the evidence of your claims at your earliest convenience.

If you do not reply by midday 28th May, I will expect there is no such evidence and that you have misled the department of health."


I also put in a Freedom of Information request to Havering Council seeking the planning permission.

Yesterday,I got a reply from Havering saying the below

Question 1	I cannot find any information about the planning application made by BHRUT in June 2018 about Queens Hospital which was approved per the extract from a recent £49M bid to reconfigure KGH & Queens. Under Freedom of Information laws I seek: The application made which was approved in April 2018
Response	The application number is P0192.18 and further information about this application can be found at: https://www.havering.gov.uk/info/20034/planning/116/planning_searches/2
Question 2	The minutes of the meeting where Councillors approved the plans.
Response	The decision was delegated to officers and did not go to Committee.  The officer report can be found by searching the planning application P0192.18: https://www.havering.gov.uk/info/20034/planning/116/planning_searches/2

A search of Havering records shows detailed plans to extend Queens in order to cope with the closure of King George A&E.

However, the plans do not mention anything at all about the closure of King George A&E. BHRUT give the impression that the application is a routine one, and as a consequence, Havering planning department waive the application through on the nod without a hearing with Councillors.

This is deception by omission

This £49M plan is by BHRUT's own admission a radical one involving all of the King George A&E patients beong sent to Queens, rather than as before sent to three hospitals, does not feature in the planning application at all.

For BHRUT to imply that Havering Council supports the KGH A&E closure plan is a deception. Mr Black and Mr Matthews need to write to the Department of Health to make a correction.

This is not ancient history as the application is valid for three years. The Department of Health may be swayed by the wrong impression that Havering is on side for closing KGH A&E when it comes to making a decision about the mystery £25M bid which is still live.