NIGHT SISTERS AT WESTMORLAND GENERAL HOSPITAL

That this House objects to plans to remove the night sisters from Westmorland General Hospital; notes that night sisters provide essential clinical leadership at the hospital during the night and ensure that there is an advanced life support-qualified leader to thecrash team to enable an emergency response to any patient who suffers a coronary emergency; believes that this move is contrary to undertakings made by the University Teaching Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust in 2008 with regard to the provision of an adequatecrash team, and that removal of thenight sisters would place patients in danger while undermining the hospital's wider service; and calls on the Trust to cancel forthwithplans to remove the night sisters from Westmorland General Hospital.