Enormous
changes to our local health services are being proposed. They
include the merger of Ealing Hospital with Central Middlesex and Northwick
Park, permanent closure of A & E at Ealing or CMH, or both, and moving many
services out of hospitals into the community.
Unless we
campaign to oppose them, these changes will open up even more services
to the private sector to be run for profit. The population is growing and
health needs are increasing, while NHS budgets are being cut.
Community
health services are already understaffed and overstretched. If new services are not
put in place before hospital services are withdrawn, the most vulnerable patients will suffer
again I say that we cannot expect a government that has a history of putting profit before principle to actually deal with problems such as this one in a consolingly way.
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