QPR 1st has formally responded to a consultation on proposals to close a number of accident and emergency departments, including the department at Hammersmith Hospital, close to Loftus Road.
QPR 1st made clear our opposition to proposals for accident and emergency department closures and the downgrading of hospitals in Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Brent.
MPs and councilors of all three major parties have opposed the proposals as have Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing councils and QPR itself.
The trust pointed out that, each matchday, 18,000 people converge on Loftus Road, close to Hammersmith Hospital. The hospital’s threatened accident and emergency department is close to a big resident population and large numbers of visitors to the ground and nearby Westfield, and should be kept open.
Some 700,000 people, including many QPR supporters and their families, live in the affected boroughs of Ealing, Brent and Hammersmith and Fulham. We believe it would be wrong to strip these boroughs of all their major hospitals.
We have also written to MPs who have opposed the closures; Andy Slaughter, Angie Bray, Steve Pound and Sarah Teather, and to Tony Fernandes, Amit Bhatia and Philip Beard to thank them for their stand.
More information on the campaign against the proposals is on www.saveourhospitals.net, www.andyslaughter.co.uk and the Ealing council site www.ealing.gov.uk.