Maternity services

[nikkie]

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Just to give you an example how bad this could be , my house is around 60 miles from the next nearest hosp.

50 miles???!!! the fortune they will spend hiring helicopters for emergency transfer...

this is the exact same thing we're having right now here - they've already shut half our gyno ward down - worst part is it's a single track road to the next town 30 miles away - in the summer it's chocca with tourist traffic and in winter it's normally closed ccos of the snow and bad weather. absolutly hopeless, what good's an A&E dept in a hosp which takes 30 mins to get there?? (and that's not waiting for an ambalance)

They were reducing 4 years ago when I had dd2 the day I left they had ran out of maternity beds!

Also it doesn't mention that tghe main a -road from here to Lancaster is well known for tragic accidents ,road blockages(10 mile detours) and goes through a farm yard