Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post

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!