Iain - do you really believe the health service has got worse under Labour? There has been a massive financial investment since Labour got the Tories out. Yes services have changed. For instance - we don't have to have our babies on the old Victorian Workhouse ward at Withington with bars on the windows. The community mid-wife service goes into local health centres and the choices for home births or domino are widely available. St. Mary's is an international centre of excellence if women need specialist treatment. Though the LibDems seem to think that if the service is not in M20/M21 then it does not exist. Your constant negative propaganda actually causes so much distress to people. Anyone who has watched Holby City knows that the paramedics now are fully equipped to deal with heart attacks and other emergencies where the patient is - it is not the case that the distance to the nearest A&E is the critical factor in survival rates, that it was 20 years ago. You talk about Wythenshawe hospital as if it was in the antarctic. Many people who have been there think the treatment they received is brilliant. But you like to play on the fears who have not experienced the service. You do not advertise NHS Direct - the best way for people to get 24 hour advice about health care - because this great innovation under Labour goes against the cynical picture you try to paint in people's minds. You are not helping anyone - just spreading negative propaganda.

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