The Boris campaign got off to a good New Year start in this morning in Sidcup and Bexleyheath, kicking off at Queen Mary’s Hospital, where the A&E department (as well as other services) is threatened by the latest review of NHS services in South East London (let alone what results the Darzai review might serve up).
This year the NHS turns 60, which of course means we have had 60 years of a two tier health system (i.e. NHS and private healthcare). Yet even those who can pay for their healthcare needs will still rely on the local A&E department should they need emergency care. An A&E department is surely the most basic and essential level of provision that we all expect from the NHS.
So this brisk but sunny Saturday morning saw a good turnout, which I have on good information included at least one former Labour supporter, doing what twenty year’s ago would have been a regular exercise for the Trots - a classic “Save Our Hospital” event. How times change.
David Evenett, Derek Conway and Bob Neill share a bedsheet(!)
