An independent commission, chaired by leading barrister Michael Mansfield QC, is being set up by four local councils in west London, who have been deeply concerned by deteriorating local hospital services.
A publicity campaign, informing the residents of west London that their local hospital A&E services are closing, has been met with alarm and dismay by local people.
Health bosses have been accused of deploying ‘Orwellian’-tactics by misleading patients in a £400,000 publicity campaign which claims that A&E units are ‘changing’ when in fact they are closing.