On 10/03/2013 21:43, SteveW wrote:

Ours is currently 90 seconds away, but the trust want to close it and
send everyone to one 25 minutes away - assuming no hold-ups. Ours is
also close to the Trafford Centre, the M60 and the M62 (lots of
accidents happen around this junction and a fair few people jump from
the motorway bridge - some survive), the other is close to a different
part of the M60 and the M56.

SteveW


But what use is an A&E unit 90 seconds away if the staff can't cope with
the A&Es?
Sure you get good stats for arrival times but that's about it.

If you really do need to have 4m of armco removed from your body
following a crash the sort of A&E currently about is not going to cope.
the idea is to have minor injury units (broken arms and stuff like that)
scattered about and major trauma units less scattered about.