IT'S NOT only on small hospitals that the health axe is falling.
As GUIRE Guy's Hospital reports, lumps are also being chopped off teaching hospitals.
The Lamheth, Lewisham and Southwark Arca Health Authority has been instructed to slashits bodeer by E2.5 million.
In January and Fehruary tus rear, Kines College Hospita. i SHED WEEK TEETO CUSAM its casualty department because waiting list AT RISK Nursing sisters on a recal television programme bluntly stated that the situation is bow so desperate that people's Jives are threatened.
The intensive SETTE •unit where seriously ill people who need constant care are taken, is being staffed at night nurses who have not gor ICU experience and have not been trained to use highly sophisticated equipasent such a unit neets.
Doctors have confirmed that unsale staffing level and that Loween T210 24 antents lave died in the last year whist heart surgery, If these people could have gone into bospital they would have bad a per percen chance of' survival.
Down the road at Guy's Hospital, six wards have been closed because the celings are collapsing due to lack of proper maintenance.
The AHA report mentions that facilities for the mentally handicapped and the geriaric are woetully deficient and in some cases "non-existent'. ACTION At last the ARIA is beginning to take a stand against the Government's cuts and they sug they will not carry them out and will go on spending. The alternative, they claim. is to make something bke 3,000 health workers redundant.
At a public meeting called by Southwark, Lambeth, and