Give us our A&E

5:11pm Tuesday 30th October 2001

Hendon MP Andrew Dismore wrote to me to explain that the reason he stopped campaigning for an A&E at Edgware (and he did so as soon as elected in 1997) was that he had to accept 'expert' medical advice that it was now impossible to have an A&E there.

Presumably these 'experts' are the bureaucrats Labour loves and whose decision it was to close Edgware's A&E in the first place.

Perhaps Labour owed them something the cynical would say for winning three Tory seats in the borough for announcing the A&E closure in the first place.

I guess Mr Dismore was told by the whips not to rock the boat when Labour excluded Edgware from its London and local NHS reviews, while at least the Tories were, and still are, committed to reviewing A&E at Edgware.

Given that the 'people' still want an A&E at Edgware isn't it the job of our representatives to give it to us?

Paul Simion

Glengall Road, Edgware

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