My appeal to Cllr Morgan to help King George & Queens Hospitals

 

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I say:

Good Evening Cllr Morgan

King George & Queens Hospital face a £50M cut to their funding and a loss of 770 jobs per my email sent to you earlier today.

I am a resident of Redbridge so your team may not have forwarded my email of earlier about the cuts to you.

I am contacting you because Cllr Santos, the Redbridge Council member for health will not write to Wes Streeting MP asking him to stop the cuts.

If both yourself and Cllr Rai do not make public representations to Wes Streeting then the campaign to stop these damaging cuts will be on the back foot.

Anything you can do will be much appreciated. ENDs video message

I wrote the following to all Havering Councillors earlier today;

Dear Councillors

 

At the 6th March BHRUT board meeting, Matthew Trainer, the  BHRUT Chief  Executive provided written and verbal reports about the damage the proposed £50M cut to the BHRUT budget would mean to the care provided at Queens and King George Hospitals. In short rather than improving care BHRUT would be managing declining care to do the least harm to patients.

 

I asked Cllr Rai, the Leader of Redbridge Council at the 20th March Redbridge Council meeting to write to Wes Streeting MP to help our hospitals. Cllr Rai delegated his reply to Cllr Santos, the cabinet member for health.

 

Cllr Santos give a detailed reply to my question, outlining his enthusiasm and commitment to the NHS. However, he said now was not the time to write to Wes, but left the option of writing to Wes at a later date.

 

Some you might remember me as part of team that campaigned to keep open King George A&E. At the time many people told me the closure was a done deal, and the A&E would close. Despite the odds being against us, the campaign was won. Today we face a similar situation. Wes Streeting MP appears committed to the £50M cut, nonetheless, if enough of us kick up a fuss the cut can be stopped. 

 

Extracts from the key BHRUT board papers and a video clip of Mr Trainer explaining the damage the cuts will do are at my twitter andywalker and facebook andywalker19. 

 

Should you be sympathetic to stopping the £50M cut I am canvassing for a photo shoot outside Queens this 29th Saturday 10:30am to deliver a letter of support, perhaps you could let me know if you could make it. 

 

If Wes Streeting still persists with the cut then perhaps we should go to his office to hand in a letter to request he reverses the cut on Friday 4th April at 6pm. 

 

Please don't hesitate to contact me on the number below should you have any questions. 

 

 

Regards

 

Andy Walker - 

07956 263088120 Blythswood Road IG3 8SG