Hasn't the minor injuries unit at Guys closed? As far as I am aware they don't have an urgent care centre - but I'm quite happy to be proved wrong.

My guess is that they are looking at how to serve a large population 'most efficiently' with less hospitals to try and recover some of the money overpaid in PFI costs. Are the people of Woolwich further away from any other A&E?

However, that doesn't over come the fact that we would appear to be very badly served by these proposed changes. As came up in the consultation last year the maternity unit at Lewisham is full to capacity and much needed - so I don't see how closing that will help anyone except the administrators?

in relation to the question above about how you would know whether to go to A&E or an urgent care centre - I suspect in many cases you'd be more likely to be in an ambulance going to A&E? And from experience of going to Guys minor injury unit, rather than A&E at St Thomas' - the queues and waiting time at Guys were always considerably shorter and if in doubt that's where I'd go.