It is not credible that community health services will be able to make up for the lack of hospital beds or replace the holistic treatment, respite and support services that currently provided by the the Margaret Centre ..

• There appear to be no plans to re-provide the Connaught Day Centre which provides Medical and Therapy support and interventions for older people following discharge from hospital and helping them to manage safely at home . What is the future for this valuable service ?
  
  
• It appears that the mental health unit at the Woodbury Centre will be moved away from the site Whipps Cross If the nearest Mental health facility is provided outside the WX catchment area, how will A&E at Whipps Cross cope with mental health emergencies?
  
  
• Considering that there appears to be a financial shortfall of £400-£600 million and the sale of the hospital land is likely to bring maximum of £100 million, where is Barts likely to find the rest of the money?

It would also be good to write some of these questions and concerns in your own words in the free text box ( Question 9) at the end of the Whipps X survey.

2 Respond to the survey:

The survey is worded in such a way that is it difficult to say no to any of their questions. However the way they are worded suggest that they will only apply to the land that Barts is selling to private developers and will therefore have no influence on what will finally happen to the land.

We suspect this is a public opinion exercise, which will give Barts a tool with which to argue that the public is 100% supportive of everything they are proposing for the new hospital at Whipps Cross. So it is important to use the “other” option and specify (at every step) the following:

All questions asked relate to the land which Barts is selling to a private developer and thus Barts will not have any influence in what will eventually be built there. You can add any points you like but relate it please to the Hospital. Please note, you are not allowed to create a paragraph, so the whole thing needs to be written in one long line.

3 Send an email

Please email at the email address above (futurewhipps.bartshealth@nhs.net) with all your queries and questions including some of those outlined above.

It is also important to point out that more of the current land should be kept available for the hospital needs (building a wider and lower hospital) and additional health provision. The estimated price of the land sold at Whipps Cross can be calculated as £240 million based on the government's Land Value Estimate for Policy Appraisal 2019 document.

Doing any of the above would be a great help

with many thanks

Eva Turner
on behalf of Action4Whipps

Urgent Action Needed – It's the last few days for sending the letter to your MP

Unless we get more funding from the Government for the new hospital at Whipps Cross, it will be built with 51 fewer beds and we'll lose the palliative & end of life care service at the Margaret Centre.

Action4Whipps are writing to all North East London MPs & we need your signatures on the letter. The more signatures we get, the more MPs will take note and act.

So please take a few minutes to open the link below, sign the letter, and send this news release and the link to family, friends & groups you belong to – across NE London. That's Hackney & City, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, & Barking & Dagenham, & Epping Forest too!!

MP'S LETTER

Don't delay - please do it now.

Many thanks.

We hope you keep safe and well.

Eva Turner
on behalf of Action4Whipps campaign.



Letter calling for the specialist palliative care unit to be reprovided in the new hospital

A letter calling for the specialist palliative care unit to be reprovided in the new hospital containing a lot of information that can be a useful resource for all of us has been sent to Barts Health NHS Trust. Read or download the letter here: LETTER

Reply to above letter from Barts Health NHS Trust, received 01/02/2021

Hospital design focus groups for the Whipps Cross redevelopment

A new series of public meetings with hospital design focus groups for the Whipps Cross redevelopment has begun and will take place throughout November and early December, each session lasting 1 hour, via Microsoft Teams. Follow THIS LINK for full details including how to register.

Iain Duncan Smith to question Barts Health Trust Chief Exec Alwen Williams on Facebook

On 2nd December at 7pm, live on his Facebook page, Iain Duncan Smith MP will be talking to Alwen Williams, Chief Executive of Barts Health about the redevelopment of Whipps Cross Hospital. You can ask your own questions by visiting the page and recording them in the 'comments box'. Full details HERE.

Whipps Cross Hospital Redevelopment public meetings on Zoom

This series of open public meetings on Zoom to discuss the latest developments regarding plans for the new Whipps Cross Hospital and to hear people's views and answer questions has now ended .

Waltham Forest People's Assembly No. 4 planned for 28 November 2020

Sorry to have to tell you that we have been informed by Maren Hobein that this Assembly has been postponed for the present. If we hear any more we will let you know.

Eva Turner at the Save Our Square rally in the town square, 24th October 2020

Eva Turner from the Action4Whipps campaign spoke at the Save Our Square Rally in the town square, 24th October 2020. Her contribution begins 37 minutes 50 seconds into the recording.

Adrian Stanard Explains How Planning Permission Works

Make sure you visit the "Videos" page to see Adrian Stannard of Waltham Forest Civic Society give an illustrated presentation on Zoom explaining planning, democratic control and environmental impact. Recorded Oct 21st 2020.