Just not good enough

Given the huge amount of extra Tax we are handing over to El Gordo, you would think the NHS would be falling over itselt to provide a world leading service:

A sheriff who said women in areas served by midwife-led maternity units were getting a second-class service has been told to go to see them in action.

Sheriff John Herald made his comments after a fatal accident inquiry into the death of baby girl in Greenock.

Gillian Lenaghan, national officer of the Royal College of Midwives, said the sheriff's opinion may have been "coloured" by a political campaign.

I suspect his judgement was more likely coloured by the potentially needless, tragic death of a baby.

Her daughter Chloe McIver was born with the umbilical cord wrapped tightly around her neck and died early the next morning.

Although he ruled that the baby's death had been inevitable, Sheriff Herald said it was difficult to avoid the conclusion that women in areas with midwife-only units were getting an inferior service.

The sheriff voiced "concern" that neither Chloe nor her parents saw a senior clinician over the 22-hour period between her birth and death.

I'm not knocking the Midwives. However, I do take real offence at a system that allows babies to die because the Government are a bunch of cheapskate murdering bastards who won't fund proper healthcare for one of the most vulnerable sections of our society.

Campaigner Lynn Duncan said: "The midwives are fantastic, however, their licence only allows them to perform up to a certain level and anything after that requires consultant intervention and where we are that's two hours away.

That is two hours in good traffic.

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