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NHS at 70 - Save St Helier Hospital

Sutton, London. Sat 7 Jul 2018



 

 Shoppers watch as the march goes past

 

 

 Most people seem to engage little with what is happening in their area - other than shopping

 Young lungs make a loud noise with a vuvuzela

 

 

 A footbridge takes the march across a busy local road

 

 National Pensioners Convention - London Region on the march

 There are huge 1930s estates, largely council built in the area

 

 Trees give a little shade to the marchers as the sun blazed down

 finally we were in sight of St Helier Hospital

 and moved on to the open space in front of it

 

 

 Where the National Health Singers were waiting to sing for us

 in front of a tent with the message 'The Clock Is Ticking For Your Hospital'

 

Barbara Verey (right) was employed by the NHS for 20 years from 1995-2015 as a Junior Sister
but dismissed after she refused to sign a work placement for a student who had not completed the placement. Later
a drug chart was altered to allege she had made an error and she was suspended as schizophrenic. She claims to have
been subjected to race discrimination, bullying and harrassment and was accused of 'whistleblowing' and forced to resign.
She says she has been failed by the hsopital Trust and the RCN, and that ACA and the Employment Tribunal have lost
her case papers.

 Free buns to celebrate NHS 70

 

 People stage a die-in to represent the deaths that the closure of the hospital would cause

 

 There were some speeches by campaigners including a local doctor

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