Dame Joan Ruddock 
Former MP for Lewisham Deptford
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Thameslink Programme - Changes to Train Services from January 2015

27/11/2014

 
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As many of you will already be aware, the Thameslink Programme to improve rail travel between north and south London is about to have a major impact on train journeys to and via London Bridge.

From 12th January 2015-August 2016 trains to Charing Cross will not be stopping at London Bridge. Southeastern services from New Cross, Deptford and St Johns to Charing Cross will be diverted permanently to Cannon Street and some services from Lewisham and other stations will also be diverted.

From August 2016-early 2018 the situation will be reversed and Cannon Street services will not stop at London Bridge.

There are also various temporary changes taking place around Christmas.

Clearly these changes will have a major impact on people's journeys, so I am advising any constituents who need to travel on one of these routes to check the Thameslink Programme website at www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk. You can enter the name of the station from which you are travelling and the site will tell you how your journey is going to be affected.

NHS Bill Vote

21/11/2014

 
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On Friday 21st November I was in Parliament to support my Labour colleague Clive Efford’s private members’ bill on the NHS. I received well over 500 emails from constituents expressing their support for the bill, which would scrap David Cameron’s new market framework for the NHS and ensure NHS patients are always put first.

The NHS has never been more vulnerable than under the present government. The Tories wasted £3billion on an unnecessary and damaging top-down reorganisation. The new rules allow hospitals to earn up to 49% of their income from private patients, which risks pushing NHS patients to the back of the queue. New competition rules also force doctors to open up services to competition from the private sector.

Clive’s bill would end the creep towards NHS privatisation, bureaucracy and red-tape and put patients back at the heart of the NHS. Labour has pledged to invest the millions of pounds saved by scrapping competition red-tape in ensuring people can get a GP appointment within 48 hours, or on the same day if they need it.

At the vote 241 MPs supported Clive’s bill and only 18 voted against. Unfortunately we have to expect that the Government will block it at the next stage. The only way we will repeal the measures in the Health and Social Care Act is by having a majority of MPs in the next parliament who are willing to do so.

As many of you know I am standing down in May 2015, but I very much hope my successor will be in a position to repeal the act.

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