HEALTH campaigners are calling for a public inquiry into the funding crisis at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Members of Keep the NHS Public Greenwich want a review to assess whether it was a "good use of public money" to build the hospital under the Government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in 2001.
The PFI scheme covered the £93m building costs but the hospital is committed to annual repayments of £15m.
According to chief executive John Pelly, it costs £9m more each year to fund the hospital compared with a hospital of the same size built without PFI funding.
By 2009 the hospital could be facing a £100m deficit.
Members of the Greenwich branch of the national Keep the NHS Public campaign have written to MPs across the borough asking them to lobby the Government to stop further PFI projects.
Chairman Frances Hook said: "We support all NHS staff who provide health care in impossible circumstances imposed by Government policies."
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