The Appeal Court today ruled against government attempts to close most of the popular Lewisham Hospital. But even as campaigners celebrate, MPs prepare to vote on whether to legalise such fast-track hospital closures elsewhere.
Jeremy Hunt will decide this week whether to wield the axe on A&Es across North and West London. He is desperate to persuade voters that cuts will save lives.
The House of Lords has blown a hole in local people's right to have a say if their hospital is closed - all eyes are now on the Commons.
The results will be terminal if coalition reforms are not reversed, warns Kailash Chand.
MPs are gearing up for a furore as the government attempts to introduce a new law to fast-track hospital closures across the country, against the will of local populations.
The government is trying to push through a last minute change to the law to make it far easier to shut down A&E departments and hospitals aross the country without full consultation.
Transparency, Accountability and Democracy can seem like a protective triumvirate for public decision making, but these can easily turn shallow, demotic and false.
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On Saturday 4000 activists gathered in London to discuss austerity and privatisation, and how to respond. Caroline Molloy found a lack of space to fully participate and shape solutions - but shoots of hope for the future.
Speaking at the People's Assembly on Saturday, comedian and disability activist Francesca Martinez delivers a powerful indictment of "corporate welfare for the rich and neo-capitalism for the rest of us".
Jeremy Hunt has declared himself 'shocked' by health inequalities revealed in new league tables. But what did he expect, asks a community health worker from bottom-ranked Manchester.
