Health bosses urged to reassure community over future of hospital
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHealth bosses are being asked to give 'clear and unambiguous signals' that NHS services at Altrincham General Hospital are 'there to stay'.
The call has come from the chair of Trafford council's health scrutiny committee, Coun Michael Whetton. He made his comments at a council meeting on Wednesday (October 12) after being told this week that the phased reopening of the hospital's minor injuries unit (MIU) - planned January - was being delayed yet again.
Treatment for injuries like broken limbs at the MIU was suspended in November 2021 because of a lack of emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs).
At the last health scrutiny committee meeting Coun Whetton urged health bosses to speed up the reopening of the MIU to a seven-day-a-week service as soon as possible.
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