TRAFFORD General is still open as an urgent care centre – and it is important that people know what this means.s.

Only last week, my son needed attention with an injury to his leg and he did not know Trafford still has an Urgent Care Centre open till midnight until I informed him. As a result he was seen almost immediately.

This was unlike a friend who, several weeks ago, in an ambulance with a potentially life-threatening condition, had to wait for hours to be seen at an overworked Wythenshawe A&E department.

Trafford Green Party has written to Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ask for an immediate advertising campaign – specifically targeting local TV news, social media backed up with posters – to let people know that we have an urgent care centre in Trafford General which can be accessed for non life-threatening conditions.

After this, we have also requested a major review of how the A&E and Urgent Care Centre services are working.

At present, the Trafford General urgent care centre seems to be under used and we fear that this will be used as a justification for further reduction of services in the future.

Margaret Westbrook Trafford Green Party