Closing Barts: community and resistance in contemporary UK hospital policy

Debates concerning the nature and extent of hospital provision in London, England are longstanding. Reviews in the 1990s have focused on a perceived over-provision and recommended rationalisation. This paper explores the representations of place which emerged in the discourses surrounding the possible closure of St Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts), London. Through a discourse analysis of official and unofficial reports, Parliamentary debates, press releases, campaign material and coverage in the London Evening Standard and other newspapers, we assess resistance to closure and the construction of communities dedicated to the retention of Barts. Four different representations of Bart's are identified: as community resource, as a site of expertise, as a heritage symbol and as a site pertinent to the identities of Londoners. The effectiveness of these different strategies is considered and their positioning and use within the 'Campaign for Barts' is evaluated. We conclude that, notwithstanding the potential to present the (possibly temporary) retention of Barts as a recognition of its status as a locus of particular medical expertise, the potency of this health care facility as a symbol both of London and of medical tradition was the crucial factor in its reprieve

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Additional file 27: Table S17. Sex-stratified effect sizes in UK Biobank considering all individuals or only those not on cholesterol lowering medications

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Additional file 4: Table S3. Text mining results for the PoPS+ prioritized genes

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Additional file 8: Table S6. Association of lipid index variants with CAD, T2D and NAFLD

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Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of contributing cohorts (as provided by each participating cohort)

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Additional file 10: Table S7. DESE phenotype-tissue association results using both GTEx gene-level and transcript-level selective expression

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Additional file 28: Table S18. Sex-participation association of the variants with significant sex-specific lipid results

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Additional file 30: Table S20. Colocalization results for the sex-specific loci