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To: Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary
Save Charing Cross Hospital
Scrap plans to demolish current hospital and replacing it with a series of Urgent Care clinics also selling off most of the site.
There has been a public inquiry please see : ' Happy 70th birthday, NHS. Now save our hospital! LBHF. ' Also www.lbhf.gov.uk/commission
Why is this important?
These plans will lose more than 300 acute care beds, and London will lose a hospital with a world class reputation for treatment.
This is important to me on a personal level as my mother was treated there during her illness and received really excellent treatment.
Here are the key findings of the Independent Healthcare Commission regarding the closure:
- There is no completed, up-to-date business plan in place that sets out the case for delivering the Shaping a Healthier Future (SaHF) programme, demonstrating that the programme is affordable and deliverable.
- There was limited and inadequate public consultation on the SaHF proposals and those proposals themselves did not provide an accurate view of the costs and risks to the people affected.
- The escalating cost of the programme does not represent value for money and is a waste of precious public resources.
- NHS facilities, delivering important public healthcare services, have been closed without adequate alternative provision being put in place.
- The original business case seriously underestimated the increasing size of the population in North West London and fails to address the increasing need for services.
