Save Liverpool Womens Hospital Campaign Highlights NHS Maternity Crisis Outside Labour Conference

Fighting to save England's Only stand-alone Maternity Hospital

Campaigners, trade unionists, and grassroots groups gathered at Liverpool's St Georges Hall in Lime Street sending a massage to the Labour Party Cnference to defend Liverpool Women’s Hospital from closure, and demand urgent action to restore and rebuild the NHS. Liverpool MPs Kim Johnson and Ian Byrne will join a line-up of speakers.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital - the largest of its kind in the UK - serves some of the most deprived communities in England, yet faces chronic underfunding. Inadequate national maternity tarif, and racism has been found to be the causes of a huge decline in safety standards and onward healthcare in England's Hospitals.

 

A working group is reviewing the future of the excellent and specialist maternity hospital in Liverpool 8, still one of the most deprived araes in England, but campaigners with 82,000+ petition signatures have been excluded from the process. The aim of the review is to eventually close the hopsital and disperse maternity and gynaecolgical services across the city into Hopstuals with no specialism in maternity and over stretched and understaffed. This has been goin on for over 10 years.

 

One of the excuses for closure was rolled out by consultants who have no expertise in healthcare, Price, Coopers & Waterhouse; determined in a tens of thousands of pounds review using NHS funds provided by the Cheahsire and Merseyside ICB, was that Liverpool has too many hospitals!

 

The second one is that there is no emergency services atatxched to the Croun Street site and a 5 minute journey in Ambulance to the nearest hopsital which in itslef has 80 fewer beds than it did have, the rebuilt Royal Liverpool University Hospital; makes the Liverpool Women's unsafe! Yet even hopsitals with maternity services across the road from the main hospital, have a higher rate of maternity complications requireing emergency treatment.

 

But there is far more to the ICB's palns to close the hospital - dishonesty, and duplicity, and a total lack of accoutability to the local population who OWN the NHS.

 

As the Save Liverpool Women's Hopsital Campaign stated on Sunday outside the Labour Conference:

Maternity services are in crisis nationwide. Infant mortality progress has stalled since 2014, with Black, Asian, and deprived communities suffering the worst outcomes. Reports of unsafe, overstretched maternity care are growing, yet government cuts and privatisation continue.

 

The band prepare to play on!

 

The NHS is under unprecedented strain:

• 6.5 million waiting for treatment, with clinicians being made redundant.
• A year-round A&E crisis costing thousands of lives.
• GP access increasingly unequal.
• Cancer outcomes lagging behind other advanced nations.

 

We demand:

• Full public funding for Liverpool Women’s Hospital at its Crown Street site.
  
  
• Urgent investment in maternity care to end unsafe conditions and tackle inequality.
  
  
• A publicly owned, publicly provided NHS—restored, repaired, and rebuilt.

Meanwhile, billions flow to private firms like Palantir, while politicians take healthcare-linked donations. Labour has received four times more than any other party in this parliament.

 

 

To be updated.....

 

See also: Save Liverpool Women's Hospital Campaign