Minister rejects MP's Maternity call

A Health Minister has dealt a blow to a campaign to return full maternity services to Huddersfield.

Anne Milton told Colne Valley Conservative MP Jason McCartney “we cannot always turn back the clock” after he called for full maternity care to be restored “close to where mums need it most”.

Mr McCartney has been backing the Moms campaign – Move our Maternity Services back to Huddersfield – launched after the town’s consultant-led and specialist maternity services closed in August 2008, leaving new mothers to be taken to Halifax if they suffer complications during birth.

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“There is a new midwife-led unit at Huddersfield royal infirmary, but mums want specialist and emergency care available there too. In an emergency, the time it takes to travel to Halifax can be the difference between life and death for mother and baby,” said Mr McCartney.

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