We the undersigned who love or work in Redbridge note the following.

In October 2018 the East London Health & Care Partnership published a summary estates plan HERE Page 15 of this plan lists “options” for King George & Queens Hospitals per the below

Current options for change

“Queen’s Hospital Queen’s Hospital has one of the busiest and largest emergency departments in England, and so development at Queen’s will be focused on emergency and acute medicine, emergency surgery and acute children’s services. In addition, maternity facilities could also be expanded and developed to manage the continued growth in the number of births in north east London. To facilitate this development, the renal unit at Queens could be moved to the new St. George’s hub with non-acute care of older people, and some elective surgical services moved to King George Hospital.

King George Hospital. We aspire to develop a new centre of excellence for healthy ageing, working in collaboration with community care, primary care and social services to offer a fully integrated model of healthcare for older people. Centralising planned care will increase the use of beds and theatres. These changes, together with the adjacent Goodmayes Hospital site, create a strategic opportunity to develop a coherent masterplan for housing, education, community and primary health care, maximising land value across the two hospital sites.” (my emphasis in bold, note no future for emergency and acute medicine at King George.)

& then at page 18

“Sustainability and transformation partnership capital funding. A new national £2.6bn capital fund was announced in the 2017 budget. In July 2018 STPs were invited to submit funding bids for schemes with a total value of over £100M, and schemes they aimed to deliver before 2022/23.

The Partnership submitted bids for the following projects

• St Georges Hospital – a new community hub

• Whipps Cross Hospital redevelopment programme management costs

• St James’s Health Centre new development

• Queens and King George Hospitals reconfiguration £49M

• City and Hackney primary care improvements

• Expansion of Queens Hospital maternity unit £14M

• Children’s and Young Person’s Assessment Unit at Queen’s Hospital £8M

• Barts Health Orthopaedic Centre at Newham Hospital” ENDs (my emphasis in bold I have inserted costings obtained in February 2019)

The three options in bold regarding reconfiguration, maternity and children all progress the so called “current options” listed above for King George & Queens and make major steps to turn them into a reality.

BHRUT, the NHS managers running King George & Queens, have no difficulty with two of the these three bids doing what they say on the tin. The £14M maternity bid is for maternity, the £8M children bid is for children. The last bid and by the far the largest at £49M is for reconfiguration, this has always meant works to close King George A&E.

Havering Councillor Nic Dodin asked the BHRUT board meeting of 20th March 2019 to publish to the full £49M failed bid document. BHRUT refused to publish the document.

& asks Redbridge Council to

a) write to BHRUT requesting the full £49M bid document be published

b) write to Redbridge MPs asking them to support the call for the full £49M bid document to be published

c) write to Keith Prince GLA member for Redbridge & Havering asking him to support the call for the full £49M bid document to be published