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As I said at the rally to celebrate saving the Whittington A& E - we have to keep this in focus and remain eternally vigilant. The coalition government called a halt to the reconfiguration process (hurrah) virtually as soon as we were in Government but we need to be on [...]

Went to speak at the rally outside the Whittington Hospital. Hurrah! It's saved - for now. But we must remain vigilant. Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for health came down too to speak. There never was a case for closure. No proper analysis. No community facilities available to [...]

Sheila's story: I have so many examples of when my family has needed an A&E hospital close at hand and frankly not for trivial reasons. My eldest son stumbled, aged 5, into a rose branch which resulted in a deep cut millimetres from his eye - we rushed him to the Whittington [...]

Valeria's story: Oscar, our first baby, was born at UCLH beginning of December. As new parents, you rely strongly on a visit from the mid-wife to make sure all is well with the little one. We waited 3 long days and nobody came to see us despite numerous phone calls to all services [...]

M's story: I have used Whittington A&E since 1983, when my son was born. He had bronchial asthma and we often had to rush there when he was two or three years old. It's hard to put into words how reassuring it was to know that he would be seen by [...]

Rebecca's story: When my son was approximately 6 months old he had a bad cough and he produced some spots of blood as he was coughing. I took him to my GP who referred me immediately to the A & E at the Whittington. As this is my local hospital my child [...]

A's story: A few years ago my nephew sliced the top off his finger with an electric planer [used to plane wood]. I wrapped his finger in a towel and rushed him to The Whittington A & E Dept. We had to wait a little while as it was very busy [...]

S's story: My story re the Whittington is that last year my two year old granddaughter started limping and it is was discovered that she had an infection in the bone in her leg. The diagnosis took a week to sort out and during that time she had to stay in [...]

Dave's story: The nearest other A&E is the Royal Free, which is miles away & very difficult to get to, especially for older people (my wife & I are over 60 and my neighbour 89), even by ambulance (rarely available) or car, due to multitude of intervening "sleeping policemen". Direct public [...]

Patricia's story: It had been a busy day -- several business meetings, a proposal to write, auditions to sit in, budgets to finish. By the afternoon and several cups of coffee later my heart began to palpitate. It's a condition I've been used to ever since my late teens and was [...]

Juliet's story: I have been extremely grateful for the A and E department at the Whittington Hospital several times in the last few years, including one time when I had a very nasty foreign body in my eye (accident in Muswell Hill, on the 43 bus route), and another time when [...]

J's story: I am epileptic. Once I had a very serious fit in which I was unconscious for half an hour, and an ambulance had to be called. On numerous other occasions I have had fits in which I was injured, needing a hospital trip. I am hugely grateful that on all these [...]

Chris's story: I very much support your efforts to keep the Whittington A & E open. As a disabled person distance is an issue. I have had reasons to attend the Whittington with a broken foot, resulting from a fall. To have got somebody to drive me to the Royal Free for [...]

S's story: I have heard about the plans to close the Whittington A&E and am very concerned to say the least. As a mother with two young children the Whittington A&E has been an essential trip for middle of the night meningitis/high temperature scares where there really is no time to [...]

Sheila's story: It would be appalling if the Whittington A&E were to close. My husband owes his life to it. In February 2003, already with a heart condition, he had breathing difficulties at home. I called an ambulance which arrived quickly and took him to the Whittington. Just as he arrived [...]

Mrs L's story: I am very much opposed to the idea of closure not just because it is totally inappropriate/reckless, but because my family has benefited from the A and E on 2 separate occasions in the past.   On the first occasion, I was phoned by the school authorities that my [...]

Robert's story: My 12-year-old son fell off his bike recently and broke his arm. We took him to The Whittington at about 8pm and were delighted to discover that there was a dedicated children's A&E department - a much less forbidding environment for an injured child. The staff were exceptionally friendly [...]

Alison's story: Two personal experiences in the last year of Whittington A&E 1       Last January I had a severe asthma attack at night - just made it to the A&E where they whisked me through oon arival and put me on oxygen, then treated me.  I might well not have got as far [...]

Olivia's story: I feel very strongly about the threatened closure of A & E at Whittington. This is partly for all the reasons put forward by others - the ridiculousness of the Royal Free being able to cope with increased numbers, the journey time from places like Crouch End or Hornsey [...]

ALL the consultants at the Whittington have come out publicly against the proposed closure of the A&E. Hopefully this will be the nail in the Labour Government's coffin of their Health Care for London plan! The Minister in the debate I secured last Wednesday banged on about how this was [...]