Fighting to Save Crucial Children's Hospital Services - Have Your Say

Mayor Dave Hodgson's latest monthly article in the Times and Citizen newspaper highlighted the fact that reducing paediatric services at hospitals like Bedford was a recommendation of the discredited, abandoned Healthier Together programme, which the new NHS Commissioning Group have pledged to take forward. There is a real concern that the dreadful current crisis of lost services, which was caused by problems with the supervision of junior doctors, is being used to pursue an agenda of permanent cuts to the services available locally for children.

Public consultation on the review of services to be available will take place over the winter, and Mayor Dave is encouraging everyone who cares about the future of our local hospital to look at proposals as they emerge and to make sure that they have their say, loud and clear.

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