1. Doctors said they were flabbergasted at the Decision to close the hospital. 2. One evening, after the hospital was closed, the nurses threw a party. 3. So will closing these hospitals improve acute care? 4. The decision to close the hospital is a direct result of Government health policy. 5. Under the reorganisation plans both these hospitals would be closed and the sites sold. 6. In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support. 7. A report is recommending that nine London area hospitals be closed including the world-renowned Harefield Hospital used by heart patients. 8. As we said earlier, the Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley faced demonstrators angry about plans to close another hospital in the region. 9. A spokesman for the board said there was a feeling that there was an intention to close the hospital, which was not the case. 10. And they worry that if profits slacken, companies motivated by the bottom line will close hospitals swiftly and ruthlessly. |