Following my meeting with Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health, on November 9, I issued a press release stating: ‘Health Secretary Andy Burnham today asked Mike Farrar, the Chief Executive of the North West Strategic Health Authority, to undertake a special review of Burnley General’s Urgent Care Centre … and that he (Andy Burnham) could not give a commitment to an independent review – precisely what the MP has been demanding.’ This was well reported in the local press including in your paper on November 10 and can be viewed on www.gordon prenticemp.com.
I suggest it is Stephenson and his friend Andrew Lansley (shadow Health Secretary) who are deliberately misleading your readers (‘Health minister: A&E won’t reopen’, November 26).
Gordon Prentice MP, Pendle.
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