A PUBLIC meeting is to be held to discuss the threatened closure of a clinic and cuts to community health staff.
Anti-privatisation campaign group, Keep Our NHS Public, have organised the meeting, which will host speakers including Leyton MP John Cryer, health workers and clinic users.
The future of the facility, which has been open since 1932, is unclear as NHS Waltham Forest reviews the future of all its buildings with a view to making savings.
The primary care trust has said that the clinic is ‘under-used’, raising fears it could close.
Protests against the possible closure have taken place and a petition calling for the clinic to stay open has been signed by more than 350 people.
There are also fears that a number of community health jobs are under threat as the primary care trust strives to meet savings targets.
The meeting will be held next Wednesday (February 2) at the Seddon Centre in Clyde Place, Leyton, beginning at 7.30pm.
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