{"id":920,"date":"2017-03-06T09:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=920"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:01:09","slug":"massive-demonstration-to-save-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Massive demonstration to Save the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_-3530004570987791519yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488727159338_2918\">Health campaigners from Ealing Save Our NHS were joined by hundreds of other Ealing residents last Saturday for a nation march against NHS cuts.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-3530004570987791519yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488727159338_2920\">150 people gathered at Ealing Broadway station to travel down together, while dozens more took different routes to join the protest in central London.\u00a0 An estimated quarter of a million people took part, arriving from all over the country by coach and train.\u00a0 They were from all ages and backgrounds.\u00a0 Some were health staff; others had placards saying that the NHS had saved the lives of a family member.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-3530004570987791519yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488727159338_2922\">\u201c<i id=\"m_-3530004570987791519yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488727159338_2923\">People are getting desperately angry<\/i>\u201d said Oliver New, chair of Ealing Save Our NHS.\u00a0 \u201c<i id=\"m_-3530004570987791519yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488727159338_2924\">The Government is making extreme budget cuts to Health and social care.\u00a0 Here in North West London operations are bei<a href=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-922 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474.jpg\" alt=\"FB_IMG_1488654681474\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474-678x509.jpg 678w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FB_IMG_1488654681474-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>ng cancelled and elderly people struggle more and more to access the most basic services.\u00a0 \u00a0They can\u2019t keep trying to blame hospital staff or migrants who are the often very people trying to hold our NHS and care services together.\u00a0 We are asking local health chiefs to drop their unsafe plans for massive cuts in hospital admissions and needed NHS staff here in North West London.\u201d<\/i><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-3530004570987791519yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488727159338_2926\">Speakers at the protest included Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, Ealing Hospital consultant Gurjinder Sandhu, London GP Louise Irvine and Steve Cowan, the leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which along with Ealing Council has publicly opposed plans to cut hundreds of beds and the blue light Accident and Emergency Departments at Ealing and Charing Cross Hospitals.<\/div>\n<div>[gmedia id=23]<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRz8Br40u5w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health campaigners from Ealing Save Our NHS were joined by hundreds of other Ealing residents last Saturday for a nation march against NHS cuts. 150 people gathered at Ealing 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