List of Events and Speakers for Day of Action to Save Whittington Hospital A & E

29th April

7.00: Leafleting outside the Whittington Hospital.

8.30: Post Office, Almeida Street Post Sorting Office.

9.30: Patients – mums and babes in cat fancy dress/masks at Laycock Medical Centre.

11.00: Patients in cat fancy dress/masks at St Johns Way Medical Practice.

12.00: London Met UCU will be doing small demo outside Tower building, opposite Holloway Rd tube.

12.30 – 1.00 (exact time tbc): small demo outside City and Islington College in Camden Rd.

12..30 – 1.00 (exact time tbc): small demo outside City and Islington College in Blackstock Rd.

12.30 – 1.00 (exact time tbc): Islington LG Unison, on Town Hall steps, with Islington Local Education Authority, UNISON branch,

Speakers

(Please note that MP and Councillor status is not current because
of the General Election)

Jeremy Corbyn, MP Islington North (Labour)

Emily Thornberry, MP Islington South (Labour)

Lynne Featherstone, MP Hornsey and Wood Green (1.15) (Lib Dem)

Andrew Lansley, recent Shadow Minister for Health (Conservative)

James Humphreys, Green parliamentary candidate for Islington South

Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly (and Parliamentary Candidate for Lewisham Deptford) (Green health expert)

Councillor Terry Stacey, Leader of Islington Council (Lib Dem)

Councillor Catherine West, Leader of Labour Group (Labour)

Councillor Janet Burgess, Labour spokesperson for Health (Labour)

Gary Heather, President of Islington Trades Council

Paul Brandon, Unite Shop Steward at Holloway Bus Garage

Alasdair Smith, President of Islington National Union of Teachers

Dave Webb, Chair of Whittington Hospital Unison

Terri Wogan Webb, Whittington midwife

Dave Carr, Hospital nurse

Jane Shallice, Haringey resident

Liz Morris, Highgate Society

Dave Morris, Defend Haringey Health Service

Carol Moon, hospital patient with disabilities

Wendy Savage, Gynaecologist and obstetrician

Candy Udwin, Camden KONHSP (Keep Our NHS Public)

Rich Moth, Social Work Action Network and DWHC

Mark Boothroyd, Student nurse

There are others who have not confirmed


If you have anything planned please let us know by emailing defendwhittington@gmail.com

Directions etc here