Residents and councillors in Altrincham have expressed anger after public health officials recommended permanently closing the minor injuries unit at Altrincham General Hospital. The unit has been closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and a review has suggested diverting patients to Wythenshawe Hospital, nearly three miles away.
Public health officials have recommended that the axe should fall permanently on the minor injuries unit at Altrincham General Hospital - and the decision has prompted fury from residents. The unit has been closed since the first Covid pandemic lockdown four years ago and has not reopened, chiefly because of a national shortage of specialist emergency nurses.
He told fellow MPs: “The Altrincham minor injuries unit was a service that was relied upon by my constituents, but it was closed by the Trafford Locality Board in 2020 and it has recently recommended that it should never reopen. I am opposing this recommendation, shaped by 14 years of Conservative failure on our National Health Service.”
She said: “I know one of the key priorities of the Health Secretary is to ensure our services move from hospitals to communities and so a minor injuries unit like the one in Altrincham would be important to that endeavour.” Pauline Smith, 76, and her 66-year-old friend Carmel Byrone were of equal mind. Pauline said: “They seem to send people all over the place. This is what annoys me. Closing the unit down will put the emergency team at Wythenshawe under more pressure.
Friends Alexa Hodkinson-Bentley and Veronica Morris, both 18, want the minor injuries unit reopened. “It would be more practical to have the unit here,” said Alexa.
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