05 June 2009
Doctors’ leaders have expressed concerns about changes to London hospitals.
The British Medical Association has said plans to replace the capital’s district general hospitals with centralised specialist centres needed more thought. The doctors said that while some patients might bypass local hospitals and go straight to a specialist centre, this could not be said of all patients.
BMA London Council chair Dr Kevin O’Kane said the proposals carried clinical risks and ‘would leave the average London hospital with a very limited range of services’.