[lettie]

I can't believe that this thread has taken off again, and from my original choices on the voting form which we all received, I am dead against the idea of splitting services.

I don't work in A&E, so have no idea of their statistics. All I know is, you can't have an A&E without an Intensive Care Unit. This would mean having to transfer critically ill patients from Burnley A&E to Blackburn ICU if Burnley's A&E was re opened.

The changes were part of the Government's plan to regionalise healthcare, so I believe that the voting form which we were all sent was a waste of time filling in, it was a foregone conclusion. The local PCTs organised the voting, they also wanted to regionalise the care. Any petitions should be lobbying the local PCTs as well as Government.