Health bosses urged to reopen hospital unit ASAP amid fears it 'might never happen'
Health chiefs are being urged to reopen the minor injuries unit at Altrincham Hospital as soon as possible to allay "local suspicion and rumour" that it may never happen. The facility closed in November 2021 because of a shortage of emergency nurse practitioners and services there have been suspended ever since.
Coun Whetton said: "I was keen to put this on the agenda because of local concern. I know the NHS would prefer it to be dealt with later in the year, but I wanted to kick it off at this meeting."The committee was assured by the trust's director of strategy John Wareing that they were "seeking to reopen the unit as soon as possible" following the workforce pressures caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since the unit closed the majority of minor injuries, such as fractures, have been dealt with at Wythenshawe Hospital, on the border of Trafford. Coun Whetton said: "I have experience at Wythenshawe where someone went in with a minor injury and there was a member of staff shouting 'a nine-hour wait for treatment'.
Councillor David Acton described the recruitment crisis in the NHS as a "worrying situation". And he pointed to a paragraph in the letter to the committee which said: "We will continue with our ENP recruitment attempts but we require options in the event that we do not succeed with this.
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