BHRUT aim to close KGH A&E in 2015

The Ilford Recorder reports at http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/news/provisional_date_set_for_king_george_hospital_a_e_closure_in_2015_1_2284269

that BHRUT intend to close KGH A&E in 2015.

The original NHS plan to close the unit says at page 123 that 25% of the medical staff are to be sacked by 2015. The detail from the report is listed below.

For medical staff:

Health for north east London proposals will mean a reduction in medical staff at BHRUT but this represents no more than a 10% reduction in total medical staff in any given year: 2011/12 (Y+1)

2012/13 

(Y+2)

2013/14

(Y+3)

2014/15

(Y+4)

Overall change:

-8%

-7%

-10%

-2% 

How can patients not die if the closure is allowed to happen?

The Guardian report http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/17/barts-health-trust-losing-2m-week indicates cuts are likely to happen at Whipps making all the dangerous any closure of our A&E.

Both Redbridge and Waltham Forest need more medical staff, not less.