Why we want to save the Liverpool Women’s Hospital

This  website  is written by the Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital Campaign, from the standpoint of users of the hospital, past and present, although there are doctors, nurses and midwives helping us.

Some campaigners have previously been involved in different aspects of women’s rights and patient rights, but all are lay people. Mostly, we are current or past users of the hospital. It is based on the experiences shared with us by the tens of thousands who have signed Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital petitions, and of their family and friends. We have been overwhelmed by the support we have found amongst the people of Merseyside, women and men, young and old, for this campaign.

We are very aware that the Hospital is not perfect but it is very much needed.

Our grandmothers and great grandmothers, our grandfathers and great grandfathers struggled to build the NHS. It was far from easy. Plenty of people told them it was impossible, unaffordable and unworkable. They achieved it despite the gloom merchants.

Our hospital and the NHS are worth fighting for. They are affordable – this is one of the wealthiest countries on planet Earth.

There are many struggles, like ours, to defend parts of the NHS, all across the country. It’s not going to be easy to win this campaign. We need your help.

20151204_094617This is for all our sisters, mothers, daughters, lovers, friends and for the babies of Liverpool Merseyside and beyond. Nothing is more worthwhile.

Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital

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This blog is a collection of articles that the campaign has written to explore the many reasons to save Liverpool Women’s hospital and ro explore the background to the suggestion of fundamentally changing a hugely successful hospital. We welcome contributions to the discussions. We welcome contributions from hospital users, from parents, from staff, from other campaigns and from anyone who has information  to add to what we know.

This campaign needs all the support it can get from the people of Merseyside

We launched our campaign on the 25th September 2016 with a march through Liverpool to Labour’s conference to ask for support to keep our Hospital and to save the NHS. Read our posts to give you a clear picture of all the issues involved. This is the time to resist. Too much damage has been done already.For all out mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and lovers and for the babies help save Liverpool Women’s Hospital.