East Midlands Ambulance Service Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

East Midlands Ambulance Service

Gloria De Piero Excerpts
Monday 21st January 2013

(11 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gloria De Piero Portrait Gloria De Piero (Ashfield) (Lab)
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The loss of ambulance stations in semi-rural areas is a particular concern. The town of Eastwood in my constituency faces the loss of its ambulance station. Does my hon. Friend agree that closing an ambulance station cannot help already poor response times?

Lord Mann Portrait John Mann
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The figures I have presented to the House show this in-built bias against rural and semi-rural areas, and, not least, former mining communities. We have the proposals to close Worksop and Retford ambulance stations and to have one hub in Ashfield’s King’s Mill hospital to serve my population. The population of Bassetlaw will have a parking lot with a potential portakabin under the original proposals.