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Woman with agonising burns sent away from TWO hospitals after falling foul of new rules meaning people have to get urgent care at unit closest to home

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Patients needing urgent care may be sent to the unit closest to their homes under new rules, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.

Hospital bosses admitted the ‘protocol’ after one patient, suffering horrific burns, reported being sent away from two hospitals before receiving any care.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group has introduced the directive as part of a ‘reconfiguration of services across Greater Manchester’, saying that patients will be sent to the 'most appropriate place for their needs', 'closest to their home', in the 'quickest time possible'.

However, anyone needing care for emergency and life-threatening conditions can still go to their nearest A&E department for treatment, hospital chiefs have stressed.

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