30 June (Part 1) - Queen Mary’s Hospital
Probably
I should have gone to the council’s Health Committee meeting last Tuesday given
the revelations about the South London Healthcare Trust going bust but the
fact is it is far too complex a subject for me to find time for and in any case
Bexley council is in no position to change anything. It will take more than
weasel words to fix that problem. All I have time to do is to offer a little
support to John Hemming-Clark’s long running
campaign to save the hospital. He wrote to me and many others as follows…
Radio 4 is preparing a programme “The Report” which is looking
into South London Healthcare Trust’s PFI contract. If you would like to make a
contribution to this programme please can you contact Kirsteen at Radio 4 on 020
8752 7774 as soon as possible to discuss any contribution you may feel able to
make. She is looking for individuals who have experience of patient care having
been compromised as a result, directly or indirectly, of the need to meet the
PFI payments. The programme is due to be aired on 12th July.
I don’t think I have been to Queen Mary’s this millennium and I certainly
wouldn’t choose to repeat my experiences there. Not life threatening but a total
lack of consideration for me as a patient. I don’t think I’ll bother calling
Kirsteen to tell her about it, she probably remembers anyway, she is my daughter.
Maybe she will do a programme on obscene blogging if I ask her nicely.
John Hemming-Clarke. Tel: 020 8468 7945 Fax: 020 8295 0739.
www.faect.org.uk