Stewards call for emergency action
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In shop that Shop stewards at St. Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, are calling for a health service delegate conference to organise the defence of all accident and emergency departments in London's hospitals.
The stewards have made the call as part of their programme of action to defend St. Mary's from a management plan to run it down and close it by 1986.
Probed
irobing this plan, the awards have discovered 'ee accident and emergency departments in the area have been closed down increasingly often due to bed shortages this year compared to 1977.
This coincides with_com. plaints by ambulance drivers that it is increasingly difficult to find accident and emergency departments ready to take urgent cases.
In support of their campaign the St. Mary's Hospital Defence Committee has also organised a public meeting on Thursday 19 October at 7.30 p.m. at Paddington School, near the hospital-where speakers will include local left' MP Arthur Latham and the President of Westminster Trades Council, John Recordon.