Irfan Mustafa launches campaign to stop local NHS cuts

12.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Wed 20th Sep 2006

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Redbridge Liberal Democrats have launched a campaign to stop the threatened cuts to our local Hospital and preserve King George V Hospital as a fully functioning District General Hospital with an Accident and Emergency facility.

The crisis is due to the Labour Government telling health service chiefs that they should cut services to clear all NHS Hospital Trust deficits.

Here in Redbridge we are suffering from a double whammy with the new Oldchurch Park Hospital, being built under a Private Finance Initiative having to be filled in order to pay for itself.

Over the last decade, the Government has put the NHS in a state of near permanent upheaval. Constant organisational change has caused real disruption. Central government has meddled and fiddled constantly and has tried to micro-manage the NHS from Whitehall.

Clinical staff should be freed up to get on with using their skills and judgment to maximum effect and with minimum political meddling.

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