QUEEN MARY'S: Short term decisions must not prejudice long term future says Health Secretary (From News Shopper)

Like everybody said from day one-It's all about money.

i have heard a rumour from someone who works in the health service that queen marys is going to turn into a geriatric unit and that other wards have been closed this week

PRIVATE PROFIT BEFORE PUBLIC SAFETY
The lies, deception and secrecy by South London NHS trust has become outright Fraud. The total lack of transparency, accountability, honesty and democracy are malfeasance in public office.
Their aim was to steal QM’s excellent staff because it was the PFI hospitals that were short staffed.
Once they closed the A and E all the junior doctors and the teaching consultants left. They closed the cancer ward so all the cancer doctors are gone. The Heart ward will close because heart attack patients will go to the PFI hospitals. There is no more use for the X ray department. Even the scanner we all paid for is now useless. This was a fully working successful hospital with all its departments. That has now had the heart torn out of it. 20% of medical staff have left and several wards closed.
A Picture of Health relied on Polyclinics that will not now be built.Mr Jenkins has shut our hospital A and E without any extra provisions being in place so people’s lives are being put at risk.
It should come as no surprise that public consultations are irrelevant in deflecting the planned closure of Queen Mary’s Hospital and subsequent sale of the land to benefit the’ Trading whilst technically insolvent’, hopelessly bankrupt Queen Elizabeth with total debts of £680million and Farnborough PRU with £677 million. Six times the building cost. Queen Elizabeth costs an extra 9 million a year to run owing to its PFI debt that was 100 million in the red in 2009.
Did Queen Marys managers know that they were joining a partnership that was already £267 million in debt? Management are working to a script. Step by step we are being robbed. Taking proximity out of choice they say: ‘a hospital can exist on a number of sites even though they are some distance apart’. Even 10 miles? In Farnborough and Woolwich but not in Bexley?
Queen Marys managers spent five years telling their A and E staff that they planned to close it. Until they all left so they can say they don’t have enough staff to keep it open when they deliberately destabilised it. We are to believe it is ‘safer’ to have nothing and close it, than keep it open?
What happened to the ‘golden hour’ after a serious accident when urgent treatment is needed? This has been overlooked in favour of ambulances driving an extra five miles risking lives. Bending facts and lying to suit destruction of our services to benefit the greedy PFI cuckoos shoving our hospital out of their nest.
Patients will die as a result of this strange, illogical and wholly false premise that the site should be sold. Don’t believe a word they say. Its all just window dressing to cover up a massive fraud against Bexley by the theft of its hospital and land to benefit QE and PRU. They cannot cope with all the extra work from QM ‘s closure. Darenth Valley was meant to replace some out dated sites but was built a thousand beds short.
Neither the council or MPs seem not to have all the facts about this bunch of mis- managing fraudsters.
Bexley council needs to defend its hospital against this shifty gang of Private Finance pirates by making sure the site is zoned only for Hospital use. Maybe staff shortages are due to the SE London Trust being £267 million in debt causing staff to think that their job might not be safe.
Closing a busy and very successful teaching hospital by dirty tricks of rumour and innuendo is fraud. Secretive figures behind the scenes stand to make over a billion pounds in profit from the two cash guzzling PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE sites. So no intention of listening to anything that might deprive them of their billion pound prize of stealing our hospital and selling off the land. Which is why nothing anyone does will have any effect except calling in the Police and Fraud Squad over so many lies have been told. Public Consultation never happened: the views of the people of Bexley arrogantly ignored. Roger Smith lied that 100 doctors were in favour of closure when it was proved by writing to them that 75 wanted to keep it open. Then there was the lie of staff shortages when they had spent the past five years telling QM A and E staff they were likely to be made redundant. It was always a foregone conclusion because they are working to a script. Taking proximity out of choice they say: ‘a hospital can exist on a number of sites even though they are some distance apart’ In Bromley and Greenwich but not in Bexley?
They have no intention of listening to anything that might deprive them of their multi million pound prize of stealing our hospital and selling off the land.
Which is why nothing anyone does will have any effect except calling in the fraud squad..
People from Bexley are being robbed of a prime asset. There is no way that other hospitals can cope with all the work being done at Queen Marys. Don’t believe a word they say. Its all just window dressing to cover up a massive fraud against Bexley by the theft of its hospital and land. The profits to be given to Bromley and Greenwich.
Patients will die as a result of this strange, illogical and wholly false premise that the site should be sold.
A full investigation into the links of managers planning closure to the PFI companies may well uncover corruption.
Why transfer the Ambulance service to private company Savoy? This smells of corruption.
A billion pounds profit is enough to get people killed. Unfortunately one of them might be me when Queen Marys is not there when I need it for the fifth time in seven years.
Time to call in the Fraud Squad.

Theer is a lot of truth in what musicmaster states.

The hospital in Sidcup, not without it's faults in the past, was a far more effecient and cost effective hospital given a level playing field.

The PFI position however does not make it a level playing field.

The issue is that the PCT/area health authority whatever are committed to paying for this building.

Of course staff morale and shortages are a result who would want to work there with this threat!.

As the previous poster has stated, if the polyclinics had been introduced the matter would not be so critical as it now is!.

The decision should be based on clinical need, not finacial 'outsouring of responsability' It is after all a National health service, 'postcode lottery inept management' is not the responsability of the residents. A local hospital, having a decent service, clean, and effecient surely is not too much to ask for, or is it to the preople of Bexley!

Crikey Guys!!!

"We will stop the forced closure of A&E and maternity wards, so that people have better access to local services, and give mothers a real choice over where to have their baby, with NHS funding following their decisions." Conservative Party Manifesto 2010, page 58
Independents to save Queen Mary's Hospital

Totally agree John......
When you discussed this at the election with me, your PPC was scuppered by the undertaking that the public would have a chance to discuss and listen to the residents!. Like the non general election debates in Bexley ( One I understand) was not democracy in action was it!
Still better not go on, people do not like you questioning the so called 'experts', that is why the last MP and leader of the council was able to 'do there own thing'.