UK HEALTH SYSTEM: Babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets...
Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.
Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:
Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley, who obtained the figures, said Labour had cut maternity beds by 2,340, or 22 per cent, since 1997. At the same time birth rates have been rising sharply - up 20 per cent in some areas.
Mr Lansley said: 'New mothers should not be being put through the trauma of having to give birth in such inappropriate places.
tell it to "the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008"
tell it to the "East Cheshire NHS Trust"
Indeed but technically that is not an argument. Simply dismissing the source means a draw at best. If I could dismiss everything biased organisations like the Mail and the Brussels broadcasting corporation said that would make life easier but it isn't a good argument.Dailymail again? :rofl
Give me Independent or TT.
Hell i'll even take Torygraph over that trash
Indeed but technically that is not an argument. Simply dismissing the source means a draw at best. If I could dismiss everything biased organisations like the Mail and the Brussels broadcasting corporation said that would make life easier but it isn't a good argument.
So?
FOI Act information can be manipulated. DM always has a agenda.
It has this trip.
As i said, bring me a reputable source something not a tabloid trash.
I'll even accept Torygraph.
So then you have no way to defend the NHS.No it is not. It was a comment.
I don't believe i set out a argument.
Well you aren't disproving.As to the OP. IF true. Then it is disgraceful .... If true that is
So then you have no way to defend the NHS.
'Labour have let down mothers by cutting the number of maternity beds and by shutting down maternity units
You could well be right, although now you seem to accept the article's veracity.The cause as to why this is happening is in the article:
Pump more money into maternity. Problem solved.
You could well be right, although now you seem to accept the article's veracity.
I still support the NHS and always will.
Money is what is needed. That is all.
Personally I support healthcare being available for all. I'm not a fan of bureaucratic and centralised nation of the NHS however.
tell it to "the Freedom of Information data for 2007 and 2008"
tell it to the "East Cheshire NHS Trust"
numbers are numbers
did you ever learn the meaning of dunkirk, laila?
LOL!
National gov'ts. It is in their nature to centralise. Centralising is easy, it is means uniformity instead of having to deal with diversity, it means top-down commands instead of having to accept the competencies and autonomies of some areas below you. Gov'ts, particularly modern gov'ts inevitably move to centralisation if not restrained.Who does?
hey, and how 'bout them canucks?
IMPLODING?
NOT SUSTAINABLE?
CUTTING six thousand surgeries?
CLOSING a quarter of their facilities?
ELIMINATING 24% of their services?
those are some rather UGLY incomplete sentences, don't y'all think?
I don't think that is what he is talking about. He is talking about a shortage of beds.Don't we here in the USA have a law that states a person can drop off a baby at fire stations or police stations no questions asked.....I wonder how many can get dropped off per year?
National gov'ts. It is in their nature to centralise. Centralising is easy, it is means uniformity instead of having to deal with diversity, it means top-down commands instead of having to accept the competencies and autonomies of some areas below you. Gov'ts, particularly modern gov'ts inevitably move to centralisation if not restrained.
That is why I vote Wessex regionalists... the natural party of gov't.:lol:Shocking.
Breaking news: National Government wishes to horde power and centralise it ...
Face it Wessex ... Conservatives or Liberals in Government. They will still centralise and horde power.
You will never get a actual true conservative in power nor will I get someone who is not a champagne socialist
We are doomed with the rejects.
That is why I vote Wessex regionalists... the natural party of gov't.:lol:
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