Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital 2024 for all our mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, and lovers and for all the babies.

The ICB meets on 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, the ICB is determined 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 of which 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 Cheshire and Merseyside is in severe financial trouble. There is a looming winter crisis. NHS England has said that the trusts must squeeze staff costs, and there is no chance 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.

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