Blog roundup from the Whittington Hospital campaign

With an estimated 5,000 people marching on Saturday to protest plans to cut back A&E services at Highgate's Whittington Hospital, here's a round-up of comments from around the blogosphere on the march and the campaign.

Conservative candidate Richard Merrin has apparently promised that “If elected, a future Conservative Government will immediately stop the

review of clinical services at the Whittington – including the A&E

unit”

Labour's Karen Jennings joined the march and comments on her own plans to save the unit here

The Lib Dems campaign to save the hospital is documented here, with Terry Stacy of Islington council "at the front of the protest" and Lynn Featherstone's site reports the local Lib Dem MP saying “Local people turned out in massive numbers to send a very clear message to the health care bosses – hands off our A&E!...We are fed up with unelected quangos dictating to us what they

think is best for us. It’s our health. It’s our lives. It’s our NHS.”

Which is fascinating really...since representatives of the parties in power - both locally and nationally - appear to be fully behind the campaign to save the hospital's A&E facilities yet are unable to actually make this happen except by joining the public demonstration like any other Joe Bloggs, and and parties hoping to be elected promise to reverse any plan to cut back at the Whittington without commenting on how they'll be able to manage this when the people actually in the chair clearly cannot.