I’m pleased that the Advertiser have printed my letter this week on the subject of the Salford Royal Maternity Unit closure. For those of you whose copy gets stuck in the ice still, here’s the full text:
I read with interest about the campaign to allow Mums to continue to give birth here in Salford. I wish the campaigners all the best, and they have my full support, but this is a battle they simply should not have to fight.
Families already have the right to have children in Salford; we have a world-class, top-rated maternity and neo-natal unit. Unfortunately our Labour Government and MPs – including Hazel Blears who was a member of Cabinet at the time of the decision – are going to close it down.
Of course, a midwife-led unit is preferable to a complete absence of maternity services in Salford, but we can and should still defend our excellent maternity unit. We can only do this by voting out our out-of-touch Labour Government.
Conservative proposals for the NHS will give real weight to the views of local people, and the future of Salford Royal Hospital’s maternity unit would be decided locally and not by Labour’s pen-pushers in Whitehall.
There is a future for full maternity and neo-natal services at Salford Royal, but you have to vote for it.
Regards,
Councillor Iain Lindley
Prospective Conservative MP for Worsley & Eccles South
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