2024-10-23 13:05

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Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital 2024 For All Our Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Friends, Lovers,
And For All The Babies


The ICB meets on Wednesday, October 9th, to discuss its latest attempt to close Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Our campaign rejects any attempts to close, merge, disperse or cut services for the women and babies of the whole area.  

None of the half-suggestions in the papers will improve anything for women or babies.

The board of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (the ICB) meets *TOMORROW* *Wednesday October 9th* to put forward its latest attempt to close Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Without the long and publicly-promised consultation before proposals were made, we are faced with determination from the ICB to close our much needed hospital.

Our campaign rejects any attempts to close, merge, disperse or cut services for the women and babies of the whole area. None of the half-suggestions in the papers will improve anything for women or babies.

Such papers are impossible to evaluate without a financial statement, research background, and impact assessment; all are missing from the
proposals.

The financial background for the whole NHS is grim. The last government's financial plans and policies are still in place. The ICB in Liverpool is in
serious financial trouble. There is a looming winter crisis. NHS England has said that the trusts must squeeze staff costs, and there is no change
to surge extra beds and social care resources as they did last year. We have consistently challenged the ICB on this.

Liverpool Women’s has structural financial problems. The largest maternity service in the country is most impacted by the inadequate maternity tariff. Financial problems are not mentioned in the paperwork. No other hospital can improve on the Liverpool Women’s Hospital maternity service without improved funding.

Proposing to close our hospital in the traditionally Black area of Liverpool, in an area of hardship, just weeks after the worst examples of
racism the city has seen in decades is disgusting.

For more details see here

Campaign group Defend Our NHS statement:

As one local doctor has noted about the related paper for the board meeting. "This seems to be a rather odd document because it talks
all the time about 'the case for change', without a specific proposal. Indeed at the beginning it says it ‘does not seek to provide proposals or
solutions’. How can anyone know whether something better or worse is being proposed?"

Anyone near Liverpool who is free on Wednesday before 9:00am, please come to the Holiday Inn on Lime Street where
the ICB will present their sugar-coated duplicitous case against the hospital.

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