HOSPITAL bosses distanced themselves from a leaked letter by a top doctor suggesting they merged to form an East Lancashire "super trust".
The private letter, from Blackburn's medical director Dr David Grimes to a senior Burnley consultant, proposed a new hospitals trust covering the whole of the area to help to fight off competition from trusts in Manchester and Liverpool.
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