Prime Minister David Cameron is escorted by Chief Executive Heather Davies at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on May 19, 2011 (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
NHS North West London is recommending changes to the way healthcare is provided to services outside of hospitals & some services at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
As I read it one of Westminster and Chelsea or Charing Cross will cease to be a major hospital.
The proposals are described here.
There is a consultation which ends on 8th October 2012.
There are various ways to find out about the proposed changes and express a view:
Go to the Public Meetings
Date: Monday 1st October
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Westminster Academy, The Naim Dangoor Centre, 255 Harrow Road, London, W2 5EZ (Paddington or Royal Oak stations or 18 and 36 buses).
Please register your interest in attending this meeting by emailing mewbank@westminster.gov.uk
The agenda.
There is also a consultation event on Saturday 6th October. Drop-in between 10am and 4pm at Hinde Street Methodist Church, 19 Thayer Street, London, W1U 2QJ.
How to have your say
Visit: www.healthiernorthwestlondon.nhs.uk
Call: 0800 881 5209
Email: consultation@nw.london.nhs.uk
Key consultation areas
- whether you support or oppose the alternative services being put in place in community settings to provide quality care closer to home and reduce the need to go to hospital
- which five hospitals should become Major Hospitals with A&E, Obstetrics and Paediatrics, and which should be Local Hospitals with a 24/7 Urgent Care Department
- whether you support or oppose changes being proposed by Imperial College Health Trust to transfer eye services from Western Eye Hospital and the Hyperacute Stroke Unit from Charing Cross to St Mary’s Hospital.
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