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Hospitals In North West London Will Close

Budget cuts and improvements to patient care lead to fewer, larger hospitals.

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In Pictures: Block The Bridge, Block The Bill Protest

A peaceful protest against NHS reforms blocked Westminster Bridge yesterday

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Lansley Rubber-Stamps A&E Closure In North London Hospital

Chase Farm A&E gets the chop

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Seems to be Monday again. So here’s some Monday-shaped news…

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Key London Hospitals To Lose Over 600 Jobs

Over 250 nursing staff excised by financial scalpel.

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Sunset takeoff at City airport. Photo / O.F.E. More woe for commuters: the Waterloo & City line was closed this morning due to signal problems. Senior NHS staff claim they were suspended for whistle-blowing. One worker taken to hospital and roads closed around the City …

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Sustainable Fashion Store Opens In Shoreditch

“Sustainable” and “fashion” may appear to be two terms set at odds with each other, but Bethnal Green Road’s latest addidtion seeks to marry these wayward bedfellows with a cutting edge love-in at the 123 store, opening this week. Stocking a whole host of clobber, …

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This will please Bob Crow: the Tories have proposed driverless tube trains. Bromley’s Safer Neighbourhood team are themselves under investigation. London’s NHS leaders are dropping like flies. Kilburn’s annual festival is going through lean funding times. N-Dubz’ Dappy is no fan of stop and search. …

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Nurses Not Taking Up Swine Flu Vaccine

Photo by dicksdaily A BBC Freedom of Information request has unearthed the troubling fact that little more that a third of London’s nursing staff have bothered to take up the swine flu vaccine. Despite the vaccine’s widespread availability — GlaxoSmithKline are maintaining supplies despite the …

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Doctor Where?

Image courtesy of suburbanslice under a creative commons licence Oh dear. What is it about our fair city that medical professionals find so offputting, we wonder? Figures out from the NHS today show that London has more trouble staffing its hospitals than anywhere else in …

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Camden Goes To The Dogs

Splat the Dog by Zefrog. Not so dangerous. Dog crime is becoming more of a problem than knife crime on Camden streets. The borough is still only 7th on the list of dog derived danger hotspots for the capital with Lambeth and Southwark leading the …