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Save our St Helier
Recently, NHS South West London's Better Services Better Value (BSBV) review has been investigating the future of services in four hospitals: St George's, St Helier, Kingston and Croydon University. This includes centralising essential and life-saving services with the aim of improving quality and safety and ensuring that high quality care can be provided seven days a week. This is a local NHS review and was not instigated by Ministers or the Department of Health, although if the decision is challenged it could be referred to the Secretary of State.
On Wednesday 9th May a 60 person panel made up of GPs, patient groups, NHS representatives and South West London Councils recommended that St Helier should become the centre for planned surgery in South West London, losing its A&E and maternity units.
At this point no final decisions have been taken, but Paul Burstow MP and his Lib Dem team are fighting to ensure these damaging recommendations are stopped in their tracks and do not make it through the consultation process.
Your local Lib Dems believe that:
- The panel have ignored the pressure on all A&Es and maternity units in South West London, and it makes no sense in terms of safety or quality to close them
- As the panel was told that only 8% of their scoring would reflect how easy it was to make the chosen option happen, the review needs to take real life into account more
- When we need help in an emergency, we need a good local service on our doorstep
- St Helier, with the best patient feedback in South West London, is worth fighting for
If you agree that our local hospital should keep its maternity and A&E units, sign our petition.
St Helier Campaign Results 
After years of continual campaigning from Paul, Tom and the people of Sutton, in 2010 it was announced that St Helier Hospital would receive the £219 Million funding needed to refurbish and keep the hospital running. The funding was officially announced in Parliament on the 17th June 2010 by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander. Regarding this news, Paul Burstow stated:
"It ends the uncertainty surrounding the long overdue renewal of St Helier….We all know the Government has to make very tough decisions to sort out the public finances. These announcements show that there is a determination to protect the poor and the vulnerable."
Your local Lib Dems are determined to save the maternity and A&E department at St Helier and ensure that we continue to have local services to serve the community.
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