Sue

Thanks for your posts. I will print out some flyers and put them them around and about. Do you think the local doctors surgeries will take them?

Everyone I know is completely horrified by this proposal, and it is especially frustrating when Lewisham Hospital was balancing its books and yet the hospital and residents are being penalised for mismanagament elsewhere in the NHS.

I have young children, I have fortunately only had to go to Lewisham Children's A&E once and the staff there were fantastic. It was a very stressful journey getting there and the thought of having to travel with hurt/sick children to Kings or Woolwich for A&E is horrendous.

The other thing that makes me really mad is that the government has just wasted about £40m on the West Coast Mainline bid fiasco (having to reimburse the companies involved because of mistakes made by DoT).... Yet here we are with our busy, thriving and recently refurbished hospital units being threatened with closure to save £17m.... what a total mess.