Back in 2016, Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospital Trust (BHRUT) the Trust who run Queens & King George devised a secret and radical plan to close King George A&E.
The plan is radical because it proposed placing all the patients dislodged from the King George A&E closure into Queens. The original 2011 closure plan proposed using three hospitals to cope with the closure of King George A&E
In 2018 BHRUT, made a bid to for £49M, the bulk of this was for monies to extend Queens to allow King George A&E to be closed and so implement their secret 2016 plan.
The Department of Health refused to fund this £49M closure plan. The public only found out about this plan due to campaigners' efforts to force publication in April 2019.
While BHRUT were pushing ahead with the KGH A&E closure plan in secret they were telling the public they were working on a review into the closure which was announced in 2017.
BHRUT also participated in a 2018 Redbridge Council investigation into King George A&E led by Wes Streeting MP. By pretending to be involved in a genuine review & council investigation BHRUT have displayed a jaw dropping deceit.
BHRUT took their deception to an even higher level by tricking Council Leaders in Barking, Havering and Redbridge into signing a 1.4.19 guarantee to residents to say King George A&E was safe.
This guarantee is pure sophistry because it is limited to a type 2 & 3 A&E service at King George. Type 2 is a specialist type of A&E, like Moorfields and Type 3 is an urgent care centre. Type 1 provides a full A&E service which 24 hour, consultant led and admits emergency patients to acute beds.
In January of this year King George had 7357 type 1 patient attendances while Queens had 9071. This shows we need to continue to campaign to save our King George A&E. It would be great to have your support for our meeting on the 20th July.
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