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Matron knows best!
Pupils from Greenshaw High School in Sutton paid a visit to St Helier Hospital recently (29 January) to learn more about the working life of a matron and to tour the hospital. Students from year 10 (age 14 - 15) came into the hospital to hear matron Tanya Fuller and staff nurses Barbara Amoah-Young and Dawn Gibbons talk about what qualifications, skills and knowledge you need to become a nurse or matron.   read more
News from Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust   08 Feb 2010

Hospital Parking Consultation
I received this information about an NHS consultation on hospital parking. I know that many local residents have strong views on the cost of parking at St Helier Hospital. I would therefore urge you to follow the link to feed in your views. Have your say on hospital parking The Department of Health with the NHS has [...]   read more
Diary of a Sutton Councillor   08 Feb 2010

Parent Pressure On Cheam Park Farm Junior School
I joined concerned parents and grandparents outside the Civic Offices in Sutton this morning who are protesting against changes to the admissions to Cheam Park Farm Junior School. Eliza Philippidis (pictured), one of our excellent Stonecot ward candidates for the local elections on May 6th showed her support as well holding one of the many signs designed by the children.

Philippa Stroud and the local MP have worked with parents on a cross-party basis seeking to get the school to reverse their decision to reduce their intake to 90 from 105. The junior school works closely with Cheam Park Farm Infant School but the reduction in numbers means that children now in the infant school are not guaranteed a place and with massive pressure on school places, they may need to travel some distance to get to school in the future.

I am glad to say that the pressure opened a small chink of hope. We went into the Schools Admission Forum which had this as a topic of discussion. The Forum is only an advisory body as the school, as a foundation school, is in charge of its own admissions.The Chair of Governors told the Forum that she was calling an extraordinary meeting of the governors to consider taking in all children from the infant school who wanted a place, at least for this year. Hopefully they will see sense and go back to the higher number permanently. Smaller class sizes are all very well but if your child can't get into that school, they are not much good to you.

Burstow Meets Minister to Thrash out Solution to Worcester Park Flooding
Local Liberal Democrat MP, Paul Burstow, met with Environment Minister Huw Irranca-Davies and officials from the Environment Agency on Thursday (4th Feb 2010) to press for action to protect residents in Green Lane, Worcester Park from the risk of flooding. The MP called the meeting after news that a scheme drawn up by the Environment Agency to alleviate the flood risk had been abandoned on cost grounds.   read more
Paul Burstow MP News Stories   08 Feb 2010

Burstow Brokers Common Sense Parking Plan for Stonecot Hill
Local Liberal Democrat MP, Paul Burstow, held a meeting at Stonecot Hill on Wednesday (3rd Feb 2010) for Traders, councillors and Transport for London officials to work out a practical solution to the parking problems that were threatening business.   read more
Paul Burstow MP News Stories   07 Feb 2010

'Temporary' Post Office Closure Turns into Closure by Stealth
The closure of the Sutton Common Road post office over a year ago described by the Post Office management as 'temporary' has been dubbed a stealth closure by local Liberal Democrat MP, Paul Burstow.   read more
Paul Burstow MP News Stories   07 Feb 2010

Paul Burstow MP thanked for pledging to "do his bit" for British Armed Forces
Paul Burstow, MP for Sutton and Cheam has been thanked for pledging to do his bit for the British Armed Forces family.   read more
Paul Burstow MP News Stories   06 Feb 2010

New initiative to cut Trust's carbon footprint unveiled
A ground-breaking new initiative to raise awareness of how much waste is produced and how much energy is used at Epsom, Sutton and St Helier hospitals has been launched.   read more
News from Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust   05 Feb 2010

Alzheimer's Research Trust Report shows dementia to be the greatest medical challenge of our time
The Alzheimer's Research Trust commissioned the Health Economics Research Centre at the University of Oxford to produce a report on the economic cost of dementia to the UK, and the country's investment in research to find treatments, preventions and cures.   read more
Paul Burstow MP News Stories   05 Feb 2010

Conservatives Commit To Sort Grange Vale Danger Spot
Conservative Councillors Tony Shields, Paul Newman and Barry Russell are campaigning hard to make the lives of residents...   read more
Sutton Cheam and Worcester Park Conservatives   04 Feb 2010

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