More than half of London children – nearly one million children in total – have not been seen by an NHS dentist in the past year. The London Assembly is dismayed that over 10,000 children in London are admitted to hospital every year to have multiple decayed teeth removed under a general anaesthetic. A motion agreed today calls […]
Read moreSome of my political opponents have been rather snide, speculating about my ‘personal reasons’ as to why I didn’t stand again in Hendon for this General Election, so I wanted to put the record straight. The main reason was that I needed hospital ‘elective’ surgery. In the expectation that if an election was to come, it would be by early […]
Read moreA&Es handling the most serious emergency cases are missing crucial waiting time targets, new analysis has shown. NHS Trusts for the Royal Free Hospital (including Barnet Hospital), Whittington Hospital, and University College London (UCL) A&E departments failed to hit the government’s target – to see 95% of patients within four hours – in January of this year. Andrew Dismore, Labour […]
Read moreYou may find the House of Commons report on NHS staff from overseas interesting. You can read it here.
Read moreAlthough the NHS is not a GLA function, I have been concerned about recent news about the NHS locally. The Royal Free has missed its waiting time targets in every month of the last year. I suspect that the problem is primarily caused by Barnet Hospital, which is part of the Royal Free group, but the figures are not […]
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