London in particular is bracing itself for a series of highly controversial proposals to emerge from the ongoing "review" of health services being conducted by the newly-merged ShA covering the capital and its 7 million population.
A ghoulish squad of fundamentalist marketisers, privatisers and hatchetmen has been assembled as a management team to drive the process in "NHS London".
Early victims of the cuts coming down the line seem certain to be SW London, where plans for a new PFI-funded "critical care" hospital have been scrapped, SE London, where four hospital Trusts - Queen Mary's, Sidcup, Bromley, Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth, Woolwich - face plans for a
In SE
hospital Trusts face plans for a
merger,
seen as soft targets. merger, NE London, where the 15-year old King George Hospital in Ilford seems set to be sacrificed to help cover the costs of a new PFI hospital in Romford, while plans for a new PFI
hospital at Whipps Cross have been axed, and North Central London, where Chase London, four Farm Hospital's emergency services seem
set to close, forcing Enfield patients to trek around the North Circular to the remote and under-sized Barnet General Hospital. London's health unions and campaigners are going to have their work cut out defending the integrity of the capital's NHS against a full-on offensive for closures, privatisation, and the run-down of mental health, elderly care and other services
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