Extend King George Hospital - Don't build housing on "surplus land"

On Thursday night it was good to get Socialist party support for the campaign. Yesterday, it was also encouraging to have Redbridge Trades Council support for the motion below. I would be delighted to speak about the campaign at union branches, political party branches and resident associations in East London. Be great to have a good turn out on 21st June at 6:30pm outside Ilford Town Hall when the petition at the end of this post is passed ‘Redbridge Trades Council notes a petition on Change org written by Andy Walker which has over 2600 signatures which reads as follows: ... "We the undersigned who either live or work in Redbridge note the following: 1 – The December 2010 Health for North East London decision making business case states at page 113: “The parts of the King George Hospital site and buildings that can be decommissioned cleared and sold.” when proposing to close King George A&E 2 – That as a reaction to the acute housing crisis Redbridge Council prepared pl...

The board only took two of my questions 1) To Trust Chair: in light of Redbridge Council claiming a North East London population increase of 470,000 from 2011 to 2027 will this board consider expanding emergency beds on the King George Site rather than selling off land? (this seems the obvious thing for the board to do. The stat comes from page 102 of the Redbridge Council Emergency Department Scrutiny Working Group of February 2018). 2) To Trust Chair, is there not a conflict of interest between being Chief Executive of BHRUT and NELFT? (MPs cannot represent two consistencies as there would be a clear conflict of interest about whether they where representing Ilford South or Ilford North for example. Joe Fielder is Chair of both BHRUT and North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT). My concern is that at some stage there may be a conflict between what BHRUT want for the site per the plan below and what NELFT want. NELFT own the where Goodmayes Hospital is situated and BHRUT own the...

I will be asking five questions at the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust board meeting this Wednesday 2nd May. The board reserve 15 ... minutes for questions. So not all of my questions may be allowed. After the question I explain in brackets the purpose for the question, there will not be time for my reasons to be read out at the meeting. Given the importance of what the board does, 15 minutes seems too little time for the board to be held to effective account for their decisions by the public. Questions 1) To Trust Chair: in light of Redbridge Council claiming a North East London population increase of 470,000 from 2011 to 2027 will this board consider expanding emergency beds on the King George Site rather than selling off land? (this seems the obvious thing for the board to do. The stat comes from page 102 of the Redbridge Council Emergency Department Scrutiny Working Group of February 2018). 2) To Trust Chair, is there not a conflict of inter...