Dear editor, The problems you report at Barnet Hospital are all too common and are not acceptable. This is not the staff’s fault: when I visited the A and E last month to see the product of the recent investment, they were working hard, clearly very professional and committed to their work and their patients. The London Assembly Health Committee […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, Labour parliamentary candidate for Hendon has questioned the record of local Conservative MPs on the vote to ban smoking in cars in which children are travelling as passengers. Mr Dismore said: “This is a really important advance to help preserve children’s health and to encourage them not to smoke themselves, when they get older. It is a shame that Chipping Barnet’s MP […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore AM , Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden and parliamentary candidate for Hendon questioned NHS chiefs over the problems due to delaying the release of patents who are well enough to leave hospital, during a hearing before the London Assembly Health Committee on 22nd January. Mr Dismore said: “A couple of weeks ago I visited the […]
Read moreLondon Labour Assembly member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore AM challenged NHS bosses during a hearing of the City Hall Health Committee examining NHS plans for Accident and Emergency services for the forthcoming winter. (See video – http://www.london.gov.uk/webcasts/34154/asx) Mr Dismore argued that “the proposals for additional funding are nothing more than a short term sticking plaster for A and […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, today made a submission to Barnet Council’s Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on bus services to Finchley Memorial Hospital Mr Dismore said: “So far, the Mayor and TfL have been utterly unresponsive to requests for additional bus services to Finchley Memorial Hospital. He has been similarly unresponsive to other […]
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