Lewisham Hospital is a decent local hospital that serves a population of 250,000 -- that's a similar size to a small city like Hull. It is financially stable. It recently had its A&E refurbished at a cost of 22m. That A&E, and large other parts of the hospital, are now facing closure, leaving the population of the borough to try and get to hospitals in Greenwich or Bromley instead. At the same time,Cllr Darren Johnson reports that the population that the reduced A&E service will have to serve a population that is forecast to grow by 85,000 by 2026. He says: I will be asking the Mayor of London to oppose the closure of Lewisham A & E at Mayor's Question Time on Wednesday morning. The Mayor's own figures show that the population will grow rapidly in the three boroughs in the catchment area for Lewisham Hospital & the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Get your comments in on the consultation - possibly not using their skewed questions but in a separate communication. The proposals do not make sense clinically or -- and most important to make this point -- financially. Sir Steve Bullock himself has pointed out the basic fact that if Lewisham residents are taken to hospital outside the Borough the support will simply not be there to bring them back into the community as soon as would be the case if they were in UHL, where a close working relationship between hospital and social services can be maintained. This