The A&E department at Lewisham Hospital is to be downgraded after a neighbouring trust ran up debts of £150m.

Lewisham Hospital has been hit by the knock-on effects of the financial difficulties of neighbouring South London Healthcare NHS Trust, which Mr Hunt said would now be dissolved.

The mortuary at Fiji's largest hospital is now full, the country's health ministry said on Monday, as the Pacific island nation logs record daily coronavirus cases. Skip to main content.

At least 15,000 people have marched in protest against proposals to close services at a hospital in south London. Organisers campaigning to save Lewisham Hospital say the plans are "crazy and ill ...

This trust, which runs Queen Elizabeth hospital in Woolwich, Princess Royal hospital in Farnborough and Queen Mary’s hospital in Sidcup, was on course to run up debts of £207 million, largely ...

LEWISHAM Hospital campaigners are celebrating after the High Court quashed Jeremy Hunt’s decision to substantially cut services and close departments, saying he had been acting outside his ...

A man has been taken to hospital after an incident on a busy road in Lewisham. Emergency services were called to Loampit Vale in Lewisham yesterday (July 6) at around 3pm. An ambulance was ...

A campaign against cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east London reaches the High Court. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP. We and our partners use technologies, ...

The bid to save Lewisham Hospital prevailed by Judicial Review in the High Court, but it was won in the community. More than 800 people attended the first public meeting in October 2012.

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Lewisham Hospital called in more nurses and rented extra space at the mortuary as flu ravaged the borough. Health chiefs denied the hospital was at crisis point even though it had admitted 40 to ...

A £4.89m mortuary is being built at a hospital in Surrey after Runnymede council approved the plans. The development on a central site at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey replaces facilities that were ...