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Old 15-06-2009, 00:43   #41
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Re: What do our MP's do for us?

Found this reported by Hansard in 1984.

Ken Hargreaves fighting for Accy Vic, and losing.

'When I said in July that the hospital was under attack, I did not expect the enemy to advance so quickly. We have had, after all, written guarantees from the Minister for Health, confirmed on 21 November by the Under-Secretary of State, that there would be no fundamental changes at Accrington Victoria without reference to Ministers. Guarantees were given that, while it was proposed to remove the 15 paediatric beds from the hospital to Queen's Park hospital, Blackburn, that would happen only when phase 1 at Queen's Park hospital was commissioned, and even then only after full local consultation had taken place. Imagine our surprise and dismay, therefore, when, only two months after the last letter was sent, the children's ward at Accrington Victoria was closed without any consultation with the community health council, the unions or the members of the district health authority. In comparison with that latest letter, setting out the assurances that the services at Victoria would remain, Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper seems positively meaningful'

Accrington Victoria Hospital (Hansard, 2 March 1984)

Sometimes no matter how hard a fight a MP puts up, their actual power is ultimately limited.
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