Health Centre Victory for Barking Residents

Everyone deserves to see a GP when they need one, but I know how difficult it can be for people in Barking & Dagenham to secure an appointment. You’ve told me stories about the early morning calls or travelling further away to your old GP because the local ones are oversubscribed. Barking and Dagenham has been […]
Urgent action necessary after local maternity services go under national investigation

Nesil Caliskan, Member of Parliament for Barking, has written to Baroness Valerie Amos to raise serious concerns about maternity services at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which is now subject to a national investigation into maternity and neonatal care. The investigation, announced by the government earlier this month and chaired by Baroness […]
Campaign launch to save birthing centre at Barking Community Hospital

Nesil Caliskan, the Labour MP for Barking, has criticised the local NHS on their proposal to close the birth centre at Barking Community Hospital. The closure would mean women in Barking and Dagenham would be required to travel to Newham University Hospital, which in its last inspection was ‘requires improvement’. Nesil Caliskan MP told us: […]