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Rowlf · 16-01-2017, 13:38

You are spot on there Margaret re the moving of A&E to Blackburn. I live in Burnley and most folk here were appalled when it happened. Everyone said BRH would not be able to cope with the extra patients and so it has proved. As for heart attacks... my mum collapsed in the Arndale in Accrington with one and the journey from there to the old infirmary seemed to take for ever so how much worse for folk from Burnley or Nelson or Colne. Unfortunately in my mums case it would have made no difference but there must be many to whom it would. I remember there being the case of one elderly lady who fell on the path outside Burnley General and she had to wait there on the ground till an ambulance came to take her to Blackburn. Absolutely stupid.

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Rowlf Full Member+ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Burnley Posts: 676 Liked: 354 times Rep Power: 8337	Re: What is the alternative? You are spot on there Margaret re the moving of A&E to Blackburn. I live in Burnley and most folk here were appalled when it happened. Everyone said BRH would not be able to cope with the extra patients and so it has proved. As for heart attacks... my mum collapsed in the Arndale in Accrington with one and the journey from there to the old infirmary seemed to take for ever so how much worse for folk from Burnley or Nelson or Colne. Unfortunately in my mums case it would have made no difference but there must be many to whom it would. I remember there being the case of one elderly lady who fell on the path outside Burnley General and she had to wait there on the ground till an ambulance came to take her to Blackburn. Absolutely stupid.