| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Paul | |
| 2 | Jake Berry | |
| 3 | andrew shepherd | |
| 4 | Alex Fisher | Good luck with your campaign. I hope you succeed.
Alex Fisher, Vice-Chair, Bury Conservative Future. |
| 5 | Charlotte Alexa | We must fight to this open |
| 6 | Councillor Darryl Smith | |
| 7 | Peter Steen | Fairfields must be retained |
| 8 | Colin Rigby | It is essential to maintain this local facility |
| 9 | Baroness Margo Carmichael-Grimshaw | We should be opening more Wards not closing them. |
| 10 | Gladys Sandiford | Rossendale citizens already have the lowest life expectancy in Lancashire and will suffer even more inequality in access of services if Fairfield closes. |
| 11 | Duncan Ruddick | The retention of facilities such as this is vital to the people of Rossendale |
| 12 | sharon wilson | |
| 13 | Naweed Khan | |
| 14 | John Arnott | |
| 15 | Lynne Maeer | |
| 16 | sean | |
| 17 | Nikolas Taylor | |
| 18 | julie slater | |
| 19 | Amy Fenton | |
| 20 | Ian Hurdley | |
| 21 | Anthony Pickles | |
| 22 | David Berry | |
| 23 | Catherine Morgan | |
| 24 | karen thomas | |
| 25 | Mark A Mills | |
| 26 | Damien Wallwork | |
| 27 | Anonymous | |
| 28 | Gaynor Godson | This is an essential service provision. People should have an A&E service and Obstetric led maternity service this side of Lancashire. To travel into city centre manchester would be a disgrace! |
| 29 | david barnes | |
| 30 | alan j butterworth | |
| 31 | Stuart Aspin | |
| 32 | Mr K G Slaughter | Save Fairfield Maternity and Childrens Wards
We must have local services.
Its no good closing local hospitals to save money at the cost of lives AND MAKE THE PUNTERS PAY MORE IN TRAVELLING COSTS |
| 33 | Duncan Ogilvie | |
| 34 | Anonymous | |
| 35 | Martine Hall | |
| 36 | Kirsty Mayle | I had my three children at fairfield and they were great, my labours were very quick so thank goodness I did not have to travel any further at the time.
My eldest daughter has also been a patient on childrens ward again thank goodness as I do not know how we would go on travelling further with my other two in towe on the bus.
Please keep them open they are essential for the community |
| 37 | Patricia Barrett | |
| 38 | Louise Ogilvie | |
| 39 | Sue Langhorn | |
| 40 | Pter Bolton | BURY |
| 41 | Alison Aspin | |
| 42 | Anonymous | |
| 43 | Janet Wilsher | The nurses are overstretched as it is - we need more of these units not less. It is not fair to make new mothers travel distances to receive the care they need. |
| 44 | Peter Schofield | closing this unit is a stupid idea, and a fine example of this country going to hell because of beaurocracy. If the NHS needs to save money that desperately, they can start by firing all the managers. |
| 45 | Michael Toal | Do not close these wards |
| 46 | Mrs Clare Welch | Closing the Maternity Unit at Fairfield Hospital is quite simply wrong.
Within the NHS nowadays, we have what is known as 'Patient Choice', where a women is able to choose which hospital in which she would like to give birth. With the threatened closure of more and more marenity units, these choices are ultimately being made for us, they are also putting precious lives at risk.
I gave birth to my son at Burnley General Hospital 6 months ago and I experienced 'Precipitate Labour' meaning my labour was very quick. Thankfully, my son is perfectly healthy and was delivered safely.
However, are women who live within Fairfield's catchment area who may experience a similar labour to myself supposed to travel to Manchester to have their babies? Or will it simply be a case of ringing an ambulance, or delivering your own baby on the hard shoulder of the M66!
Hands off our hospital's! It's the 21st Century, we should have more provision - not less! |
| 47 | Julie Cullane | |
| 48 | John Cullane | We need this unit to not only be a high grade A&E, but we need the associated resource to back up the units for true care.
Reliance on ambulance transfers or longer car trips to the next *closest* hospital with the right equipment/staff, is not a consideration, based on time being critical and the unknowns of travel.
THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN. |
| 49 | Nicola Boyd | How they can jusify shutting yet another maternity ward is beyond me. I had my baby in jan 2007. I was supposed to go to fairfield i rang through the first time to advise labour had started, i was told to ring back after contractions got closer together, when i rang back an hour later after my waters boke a was told that the ward was closed and had to go to north manchester, When i said i didnt know where to go i was told to ring an ambulance, luckily for me when the ambulance arrivd they took me to burnley general and from there everything went to plan. How ever its was very stressful sitution and caused extra stress that could have been prevented and was also extra strain on the emergency services as i didnt really need an ambulance to a local hospital. So how the surrounding hosptitals can cope with yet another closure is beyond me and not thought for people has been given. |
| 50 | faye pilling | |