Ega Cash Probe
Socialist Press1977 1977-07-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 11
Only 'left' MPs Jock Stallard, Robin Corbert, Peter Harvey, Oonagh MacDonald, Laurie Pavitt, Joan Maynard and Doug Hoyle turned up at a meeting with about 15 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital workers and selected supporters in the House of Commons on Thursday 23 June.
They were presented with new evidence, prepared by a firm of consultants, to show that even if the Area Health Authority's own basic running cost figures are accepted, it is probably more "economical" to upgrade the EGA on its present site than to move its facilities to the Whittington Hospital.
SUSPECT The basic AHA figures used for this assessment, however, are themselves highly suspect. It seems that -to "prove" the case for closurecosts that should have been attributed to other District services have been loaded onto the EGA.
By way of a fight against closure, all that the MPs would offer was to try to persuade the Secretary of State to set up a "public enquiry"
A twice repeated call by one EGA supporter for a labour movement inquiry into health needs, priorities and costs in the area was completely ignored by the MPs.
So were repeated appeals by the EGA workers for immediate action to get the hospital lift repaired and to combat the AHA's policy of running the hospital down by, for example, filling nursing staff posts with agency nurses who can be easily dismissed.