WOODBANK Surgery - second to none in Bury - is to be taken over by the so-called Primary Care Trust.

The entire medical staff will soon be replaced by GPs recruited by the NHS.

No prizes for guessing what the implications are - consulting with medics who cannot speak the language, among other things.

Patients of long-standing have not had a say in the matter - is this Blair's idea of the democracy that so many of us endured a world war for?

LIONEL COX,

ex-patient

The Woodlands