Local campaigners for the A&E and maternity services at the PRH took their fight to Downing Street on Wednesday as Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister. They joined campaigners from other Sussex and Surrey hospitals outside the gates so that the new Prime Minister passed them on his way to and from Buckingham Palace.
The Summer 2007 edition of the Kent & Medway Networks (KMN) Newsletter for Patient and Public Involvement in Health Forum Members in Kent and Surrey has been released. This publication gives an update on some of the work of the PPI Forums supported by KMN, and is available to download from this web site from the "Focus and Downloads > External Documents" section.
Commenting on the increase in flood defence spending to £800 million in 2010-11 announced this afternoon by Hilary Benn, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, Chris Huhne MP said:
According to Epsom & Ewell Borough Council's latest issue of their 'Insight' magazine, "residents' association councillors work together in the council but are not a political party". This is not true.
The Audit Commission's findings in Epsom & Ewell Borough Council for the year 2005/6 have now been published. The Commission was clearly unhappy with performance on recycling and street cleansing. Jonathan Lees, Leader of the Opposition and Councillor for Stamford Ward issued the following statement :
Today Liberal Democrats on Suffolk County Council responded to the publication of the first stage of the Conservative Administrations' plans for privatising the County Council and expressed concern over their failure to meet all the costs they need despite cutting jobs.