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KEEP services local: Sue Ward, head of children’s services with new mum Hayley Pritchard and baby John
Save our hospital services
15/ 2/2006
MUMS and dads, grannies and grand-dads, aunts, uncles, friends and distant cousins - your baby unit needs you!
Without the support of Tamesiders, there is a chance that Tameside Hospital could lose its outstanding children's and maternity services in a region-wide NHS shake-up.
Which is why the Advertiser is teaming up with the hospital to make sure this doesn't happen.
A public consultation is looking at the best way to streamline maternity, neonatal and paediatric services from 14 to at most eight sites. This could mean that in the future babies would no longer be born in Tameside but instead in either Stockport or Manchester.
NHS chiefs say this is the only way to meet modern child health needs and provide specialist care for very sick babies.
Four options have been put forward for reform. Consultants have
recommended the "preferred" option A which sees inpatient
paediatric and obstetric sites kept at:
- Tameside
- Wigan's Royal Albert Edward
- Royal Bolton
- Royal Oldham
- Manchester's St Mary's
- Stockport's Stepping Hill
- Wythenshawe
- North Manchester
Neonatal intensive care units would be based at St Mary's, Oldham and Bolton.
Losing the Tameside unit would have a knock-on effect on other services with links to it, such as gynaecology, as well as endangering the plan to turn the hospital into a foundation hospital.
While hospital bosses are confident that Tameside will not lose out, they are calling on residents to show support for maternity and young people's services.
- To add your name to our petition and show your support, either complete and send in the petition form in this week's Advertiser, or click on 'Submit Your Comments' below and completing the form with your name, address and any comments you wish to make in support of the campaign.
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