This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition SAVE FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL BURY LANCS AND LIVES.
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CAMPAIGNERS who oppose the shutdown of Fairfield’s maternity services are renewing their fight to save it.
Then the town was hit by the decision two weeks ago not to go ahead with a midwife-led unit, which means there will be no planned hospital births in Bury. However, campaigners have joined forces with MP David Nuttall to ask Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to reconsider the decision.
The shake-up was approved when Greater Manchester had 33,544 live births a year, in 2005. The Office of National Statistics predicted this would reach 33,642 in 2015 but the 2010 figures stand at 37,876. But the Children and Young People’s Network, which is overseeing Making it Better, has said the new system can cope with 41,000 births.
The campaigners have met MP Nuttall and a letter is going to Mr Lansley to request a meeting to discuss the matter, asking him to look again at keeping Bury’s services.
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Please see petition "Save OUR Maternity Services at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury".
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