Hundreds of people lined themselves up in support of local hospital services which they fear could be cut back in the future.<\/p>\n
Crowds demonstrated in Market Place in King’s Lynn on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
NHS bosses are assessing the future of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), and this week, a local newspaper reported that they might consider downgrading its A&E, intensive care unit and maternity services.<\/p>\n
The Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group said no decisions had been made and any proposals “would require robust clinical evidence”.<\/p>\n
James Goodman-Stephens, from the town, attended the demonstration with his family and said without the hospital, his twin children might have died.<\/p>\n
They were born premature and the first was born in the hospital car park with his umbilical cord around his neck.<\/p>\n
Goodman-Stephens rushed inside to alert staff, who tended to the baby and the second was born safely.<\/p>\n
If they had instead been forced to go to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 40 minutes away, he said both children would have been born on the A47.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if they would’ve survived and if we would’ve come home with two babies,” he said.<\/p>\n
“These are essential services that can really cost lives if they’re not here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people lined themselves up in support of local hospital services which they fear could be cut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}