Hospitals

Health for north east London

The Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, has agreed that the Health for north east London proposals should go ahead. He took advice from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) which looked carefully at whether the proposals were the best thing for local people.

The IRP’s report said that the suggested changes would be give the best clinical care and service, and are the best thing we could do for local people's health.  You can read the full report on the IRP website. While he saw that some people had concerns, the secretary of state said that the IRP noted that we had done a lot of work to listen to what people thought.  He agreed that we need a big change to give us a sustainable healthcare system in outer north east London.  

We can now move forward with our plans to make local health services much better.  We will group services together on fewer sites so that hospitals have more senior consultants (hospital doctors who are experts in particular areas), so that the hospital staff can make faster, better decisions, which will help patients.

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) investigation into the care at Queen’s and King George hospitals said that we must improve quality and safety urgently.  We will do this first, before we start the Health for north east London plans.  There is more information about this on our BHRUT web page.