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PE01839: Review maternity models in remote and rural areas

Health

Petitioner: Maria Aitken on behalf of Caithness Health Action Team

Status:
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Closing Date for Online Petition: 02 December 2020

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ask all relevant health boards to review their maternity model to ensure that it meets the needs of remote and rural communities.

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We believe that in deciding to centralise maternity services, health boards are not giving enough consideration to the impact of that decision on the perinatal mental health of the mother, partner, unborn babies, other children in the families and the wider community.

Do you agree that the Scottish Government should ask all relevant health boards to review its maternity model to ensure that it meets the needs of remote and rural communities?

Our maternity services urgently need to meet the needs of remote and rural communities. The continued centralisation of our health services is a backward step for the physical and mental health of our community.

Lynne Glover

22:57 on 15 Nov 2020

For years the central-belt centrist narrative has understandably not had the north Highlands on its radar. All of a sudden with lock-down, the north Highlands is a Garden of Eden. Please, please. All we ask is for you to walk a mile (or a 107 or so) in our shoes.

Alan McLeod

19:54 on 13 Nov 2020

We should have the same facilities as the central belt has.

E McEwan

17:53 on 11 Nov 2020

Loss of a first class facility in Stranraer disgusting.

Helen dodds

10:48 on 11 Nov 2020

All rural communities deserve equality.

Angela Armstrong

10:40 on 11 Nov 2020

Things are as bad in Galloway where patients in early labour have to make their own way 75 miles to Dumfries. If they are deemed not to be in labour, they are sent 75 miles back to await the onset of contractions. Local midwife services have been cut back. This was not always the case.

Gordon Baird

10:22 on 11 Nov 2020

My daughter in law took 7 hours to reach the maternity unit 100 miles away at 38 weeks pregnant with twins due to a lorry catching fire and totally blocking the road with no alternative route apart from an extremely long detour on single track roads not acceptable.

Elizabeth Candeland

23:12 on 07 Nov 2020

The current situation is disgraceful and typical of the SNP thumb on Highland Health Board.

Gordon Doull

12:42 on 07 Nov 2020

I would not be allowed to move cattle over hundred miles in labour but its seems ok for a pregnant woman to do it often without family be able to go with her.

Coral blackwell

16:12 on 06 Nov 2020

We should not be treated like second class citizens, we deserve to have the same services are anywhere else.

Shirley Sutherland

13:24 on 05 Nov 2020

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