Today, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) issued a press release about the plan to convert midwifery-led maternity units (MLUs) in Ludlow, Oswestry and Bridgnorth to on-call services. This means that mums-to-be must ring to arrange for a midwife to come to unlock the maternity unit before care can be provided for the […]
Day: 8 June 2017
Tracey Huffer fears we will lose our midwifery-led maternity units
Tracey Huffer, Councillor for Ludlow East and a practising nurse, has issued a statement on the news yesterday that the midwifery-led maternity units (MLUs) will be converted to an on-call system. She said: “The Trust that runs Shropshire’s main hospitals has in recent discussions put forward proposal to replace all three midwifery-led maternity units (MLUs) […]
General Election 2017: The polls have opened – please turn out to vote
The polls have opened. They close at 10pm tonight. Identification is not required to vote at a polling station. You simply need to give your name and address. You do not need your poll card, though it makes it a little quicker if you have it. If you are not certain where to vote, type […]
Please don’t give Theresa May a mandate to continue swinging her wrecking ball at Britain
Why did May call the election? Because she wants to weaken the opposition by giving herself a sufficient majority to crush the opposition. May had for months steadfastly rebutted any suggestion that she would call a snap general election, before calling it just after Easter. She called this election because she is weak and she […]