Dr Chidi Ejimofo (consultant in emergency medicine at Lewisham Hospital doing a solo with the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir.
The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir were first seen on Gareth Malone's BBC2 show, 'Sing While You Work', where they were narrowly beaten in the final. Since then, the choir have gone from strength to strength, bagged the Christmas Number 1 spot on the official UK chart in 2015. Now in 2016 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust choir has recorded an album, which will be released on 24 June 2016. The choir is made up of staff from right across the NHS workforce, including doctors, nurses, physios, porters, administrators and many more. They perform regularly for hospital patients and the local community, as well as singing in concerts across the UK and releasing a charity single which reached the Christmas Number 1 spot on the official UK chart in 2015. A senior A&E doctor who helped spearhead a campaign to save the emergency department at Lewisham Hospital in London is to stand in the European elections in the capital. Dr Chidi Ejimofo, a consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospital Lewisham, is the latest NHS employee to announce his candidacy for the National Health Action (NHA) Party – a new political movement which aims to alert people to privatisation and cuts in the NHS. Lewisham Hospital’s A&E department came under threat last year after administrators were brought in to transform services in the area. The Court of Appeal ruled that the health Secretary Jeremy Hunt acted unlawfully in seeking to shut wards at the hospital, which was performing well. Dr Ejimofo, who also appeared on television as part of an NHS choir in the BBC’s The Choir: Sing While You Work programme, said his decision to stand was driven by concern that the British public were “unaware of how close they are to losing” the NHS. “I witnessed first-hand senior clinical colleagues from NHS England intent on driving through Government policies that had been shown to both destructive and lacking in clinical evidence,” he said.
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