Jamie Reed – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2016-09-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect on the safety of patients of the withdrawal of 24-hour consultant-led maternity services at West Cumberland Hospital.

Mr Philip Dunne

No such assessment has been made. Decisions on maternity services at West Cumberland Hospital are matters for the local National Health Service.

Maternity provision in Cumbria is being assessed as part of the Success Regime work in progress with the local NHS and support from NHS England and NHS Improvement.