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<\/a>Next up was John Lister<\/strong> who is Director of London Health Emergency and was one of the commissioners on the Mansfield Healthcare Commission into SaHF. He has been campaigning for healthcare in London since 1983. He ripped into the unaccountability of CCGs. He highlighted some failed NHS outsourcing deals with private healthcare suppliers. He listed the impossible recent stream of demands from government on hospitals. If they don\u2019t balance their books they will get no extra money. Demands on Mid Staffs to save \u00a310 million led to it cutting corners and failing. SaHF was conceived in 2012 to save \u00a31.5 million over five years. It\u2019s now come to light that SaHF is demanding 1.3 billion in capital costs. But there is no money for this. And there still aren\u2019t any final business cases for any of the SaHF initiatives. We can\u2019t go backwards but all we can look forward to is more closures but no new build as there is no money for this. There\u2019s no evidence that even if out of hospital services could adequately replace acute care in hospitals it would save any money. And there are no detailed plans or any implementations of these out of hospital services. The local population continues to grow but if Ealing and Charing Cross Hospitals cease to be Major Hospitals we\u2019ll lose 700 to 800 hospital beds. Urgent Care Centres cannot replace A&Es. What we want are no more A&E closures and Maternity re-opened at Ealing Hospital. Rousing applause!!!<\/p>\n Dr Ajaib Sandhu<\/strong> spoke next. She is an 80 year old GP who has practiced in Southall for 49 years. She bemoaned that humanitarian grounds had been ignored in the closures and closure plans. It is shortening life expectancy. The impending closure of children\u2019s A&E will be disastrous for children especially \u2018late presenters\u2019 who are seriously ill.<\/p>\n Ealing Hospital Junior Doctor Ravi Ganepola<\/strong> was the final speaker. He cut through much of the misinformation about the Junior Doctors\u2019 dispute. The bosses want to make remuneration for Saturday work the same as weekday work. The 5pm to 1am shift is to be remunerated as a day shift and not a night shift. Junior Doctors are being co-erced into working longer hours and they are worried that when tired they will make mistakes. The government\u2019s \u00a0linking of higher mortality rates to weekends is based on data for Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. The regulatory safeguards being proposed are inadequate.<\/p>\n You can watch more videos of the speeches here<\/a><\/p>\n