Mike Houlahan

The downgrade of services at Lumsden Maternity Centre will go ahead on Monday as scheduled.

Tomorrow's the last throw of the dice for supporters of the Lumsden Maternity Centre, as a parliamentary select committee considers a petition calling for a planned downgrade of services to be stopped.

Facebook, which the Prime Minister has sternly criticised for tardiness in removing livestreamed footage of the Christchurch terror attack, was used this week to livestream public submissions on new firearms laws.

Increased patient numbers, confusion over system changes and current systems not being user-friendly have led to just one in three mental health patients having a current discharge plan at SDHB.