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Friday, 26th February 2021, 8:00 pm
There has been a question mark over the future of Chorley and South Ribble A&E for over five years
The Post understands that Matt Hancock made the eleventh-hour intervention not long after local NHS bosses had been told that they could finally set a date to formally ask residents for their views on the future of the facility.
That would have been the culmination of a tortuous process which goes back almost five years to when the A&E at the Euxton Lane site was shut down for nine months because of a shortage of medics.
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Concerns raised as £8m plans to upgrade Hinckley hospitals are reviewed in light of coronavirus I very much hope that we are not back to square one.
Hinckley and Bosworth Community Hospital
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