NHS Under Pressure, Admits Health Secretary

[Arthur Little]

Salford Royal Hospital

This is my local hospital, the Tories closed the maternity ward. that in a city of 250,000 people it doesn't have a maternity ward and at one of the best NHS hospitals

That IS shocking ... ! But this is exactly what the former Tayside Health Board did with the modern, state-of-the-art Maternity Block at Perth Royal Infirmary barely 20 years after it was built ... at a time when ('scuse pun) the last Labour Government was in power.

Nowadays some young mothers-to-be are forced to travel upwards of 50 miles from Highland Perthshire to their nearest facility at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee in order to give birth.

How is that!

[Dedworth]

That IS shocking ... ! But this is exactly what the former Tayside Health Board did with the modern, state-of-the-art Maternity Block at Perth Royal Infirmary barely 20 years after it was built ... at a time when ('scuse pun) the last Labour Government was in power.

Nowadays some young mothers-to-be are forced to travel upwards of 50 miles from Highland Perthshire to their nearest facility at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee in order to give birth.

How is that!

I thought NHS Scotland was fully devolved and run by the Scottish Government

[Arthur Little]

I thought NHS Scotland was fully devolved and run by the Scottish Government

Yes, it IS ... and SNP currently holds the majority of seats in Scotland. But the closure I'm talking about, took place at a time when Labour was the ruling Party north of the Border.