Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition

Royal Free Shut

April 6th, 2010, Comments Off

Just a quicky.
The Royal Free’s A&E has been shut today thanks to a power failure.
This is from the BBC News site:
A London hospital has partially re-opened its accident and emergency department following a power failure.
The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, said it was still diverting ambulances after “a major internal incident” at 0845 [...]

Day Of Action, More Press and another Video

April 5th, 2010, 1 Comment

Sorry that’s it’s been a while since the last update, things have been a bit hectic over the last few weeks.
We had a good couple of hours with the stall outside the Nag’s Head, Holloway on Saturday morning, collecting more signatures, distributing flyers and spreading the word about the Day of Action.  We’ve now got [...]

Day of Action

April 5th, 2010, Comments Off

We are going to have a day of action for the Whittington on Thursday 29th April and would like workplaces, surgeries, nurseries, housing associations etc. to organize events and hold photo opportunities during the day.  We can come round and take photos of the events you organise with a view to creating a montage for [...]

A brief report of tonight’s meeting

March 23rd, 2010, 1 Comment

This is a very brief report. More detail will follow over the next few of days.
Over 100 people attended the fantastic meeting tonight where we discussed plans for the next stage of the campaign. The main focus will be a day of action on Thursday 29th April, one week before the probable general election date. [...]

Videos and a reminder

March 21st, 2010, No Comments

This is a brilliant video by Sarah Mills documenting the campaign up to the march on 27th February.

The BBC have footage of Lynne Featherstone’s Westminster Hall debate, ‘London Hospitals’, from 17th March 2010 (a transcription from TheyWorkForYou was posted here the other day.). It includes contributions from Jeremy Corbyn, Health Minister Mike O’Brien and MPs [...]