Re: Councillors may call for government intervention if Trafford General downgrade goes ahead before Wythenshawe A&E upgrade

I WAS glad to hear that local councillors (and Kate Green MP) are taking some responsibility for the state of our local health services.

We have seen the downgrading of Trafford General Hospital from a well-used, popular, local general hospital with an A&E service, including emergency mental health care, to a forgotton rump, its machinery and staff asset -stripped by an absentee management and senior consultants in Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. This is not what we were promised.

And it doesn't bode well for the future of all the other local general hospitals, under the Healthier Together plans. All over Greater Manchester, local, general hospitals, like Wythenshawe Hospital, are planned to become satelite services to super-hospital hubs, like MRI.

We have been promised the best use of centralised and local hospital services under Healthier Together.

The present state and uncertain future for urgent care and in-patient services in Trafford, is a salutory warning for the whole of the Healthier Together plans (promises! promises!).

I hope our local politicians will step up to the breach: take some public stand on the future of our local services in Trafford and in Healthier Together, generally, against the insubstantial promises of the Department of Health, local NHS managers and CCGs.

Pia Feig, address supplied