Apr 2014 - my london diary

	Barts cuts Health Advocacy & Interpreting Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London. Wed 16 Apr 2014
	There were representatives from Tower Hamlets Labour party as well as from Mayor Lutfur Rahman at the protest The Mayor had sent a statement of support and an apology for being unable to be present in person Some of the women taking part preferred to stand at the back of the protest The 'Tower Hamlets NHS Keep of NHS public' banner
	The protesters took a petition to the main door of the hospital where it was received by Mark Cubbon, Executive Director of Delivery who talked briefly with the protesters and tried with little success to reassure them. But the real problem here as elsewhere in the NHS is the huge burden of debt from misconceived and poorly negotiated PFI (Private Finance Initiative) ccontracts - in particular for the new building we were standing in front of. It was badly needed, but the private companies involved in these contracts are making huge profits.
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