Tory leader backing PRH

Friday 15th August 2008, 2:50PM BST.

David CameronConservative leader David Cameron today pledged his support for a campaign to keep full paediatric services at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital.

The Tory supremo made the pledge on his visit visiting to Telford today.

Mr Cameron was asked at a brief press conference at the end of the visit if he supported a campaign to keep full paediatric services at the Princess Royal and he said: “I support the campaign to fight for the local hospital. It is absolutely right to do that.

“There is a great problem in our health service with top-down reorganisation decided in Whitehall, rather than finding out what local people want.”


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    devon salopian

    watch out diddy david cameron is wearing that deeply concerned look. look out prh if he ever gets in, you could become a cottage hospital or worse still semi detached, yes the nhs is safe with the tories,not

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    Andy (Gnosall)

    Mr Cameron, PRH spent millions on building a Maternity ward they carn’t use, anyone giving birth (unless the child just drops out) Telford forward them to the Royal Shrewsbury! The hospital is poor, standards are low, and hygiene is aweful.
    Gladly i now come under Stafford General Hospital, what a place. Trust me, visit Stafford Hospital, and then compare it to Telford, you will be discusted! Note they are both NHS hospitals!!!
    PRH needs a serious shake up…NOW! allow the people of telford to enjoy the excellent service that i now receive in Stafford!

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    H. St. John Peasbody

    Like Andy (Gnosall), I have used Stafford General Hospital: I concur with all of his comments regarding the contrast between the PRH and Stafford General.

    Until the pro-Shrewsbury bias that exists across all sections of public service is erradicated, East Shropshire will continue to be the victim of shocking services.

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    Y Mab Darogan

    I also agree what is the point og PRH having a maternity unit
    Unless the birth has no complications you are forwarded onto Shrewsbury

    Not many births have no complications

    That is why for our 2nd child we have decided to have the birth at Shrewsbury even though we live in Telford

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    jimmy simms

    is that a MANEFESTO COMMITTMENT!!!???? WIth a budget to match, wow if so that’s a first and i cant wait to see how he’s going to pay for it, who will have their taxes raised as a result, traders, motorists, smokers maybe more speed cameras to pay for it, kiss the tax cuts ( and thus the election ) bye bye cameron

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    DevilsChair

    He’ll probably close it anyway if ever power were to come his way.. It could all be Privatise! Privatise! Privatise! the chant.. ‘no more NHS, lets all copy that successful US model..’ ha ha.. last one in the UK close the curtains.

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    Andrew

    10 years of the New Labour project really have given some folk a deranged bitter outlook!

    Bliar and Clown and all the other Labour numpties, things can only get better!!!

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    devon salopian

    it is 11 years of stability and bliss, ok we are travelling through rough seas at present, but the green shoots of recovery are beginning to show.

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    Stuart

    Here we go again, the typical idiotic comments from those who cannot grasp what a state our country has been reduced to under this outrageous cabal in Westminster. Devils Chair has the gall to talk about “privatise” etc, I put this down to ignorance. Has he never heard of PFI (yes Private Finance Initiative if you have never heard of it) this is where Publicly owned (theoretically) buildings like Hospitals, Schools etc are built by private firms then rented back for ex number of years to the hospital or school etc putting them in hock for donkeys years to come. Browns idea Devil. Thats why they are finding it so difficult to pay their way and in the case of Hospitals some are having to lay off nurses in order to pay the rent. This Labour Government has allowed more private finance to take over and be used in more public institutions than any Conservative Government ever did.
    Jimmy Simms, very intelligent, you obviously don’t pay tax because if you did you would realise how every single taxable thing that intelligent people pay has gone through the roof. Yes, under New Labour. Do you use gas, electricity, petrol and do you eat food from the Supermarket, you obviously don’t as you don’t know how prices have sky rocketed. If you were poorly paid, you would now be paying 2pence in the £ more in income tax for which you can thank Brown and Darling. Perhaps you don’t understand Income Tax though.
    Then we have the usual devon salopian, “11 years of stability and bliss”, yes on £43 billion of “BORROWED” money by Brown. Now we have nothing left in the kitty (unless we borrow more) to get us out of the mire he has got us into.
    The we have the absolute blinder with all the intelligence that only devon salopian can muster, read people. “BUT THE GREEN SHOOTS OF RECOVERY ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW”. Now where on earth would that be devon, please tell us as it appears that out of a population of about 60 million, less a couple of hundred who are still daft enough to support New Labour, you are the only one that knows something about the green shoots. Bye the way, when you talk about the NHS being safe etc. 13.500 nurses jobs were declared redundant only last year – ask any of those nurses who they think the NHS is safest with. My daughter is a District Midwifery Sister, ask her and her colleagues who they would rather work under, the Tories or Labourites, then ask the other Public Sector workers who have just been given 2.5% pay rise when the true rate of inflation is reaching 10% and higher. Then ask them why they are on strike or threatening to. Sorry each, your arguments are well, what can we say?. On reflection I had better not say anything as I would be blanked out.

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