Burnley A&E revisited  

The NHS Outcomes Framework 2012-13 tells me that, next year, there will be a survey of people attending A&E to find out what kind of experience they’ve had. Good ones, I hope.The survey is run on “an ad hoc rolling basis”. The last one was in 2008 – just after Burnley General’s A&E Department was controversially downgraded to an Urgent Care Centre. Despite countless solemn pledges by Coalition MPs to “bring back A&E” Burnley is, alas, still stuck with its UCC tag. At the time of the downgrading there was a tremendous kerfuffle which has since died down as people adjust to the new reality.  Put bluntly, they are not getting their A&E back. Nevertheless there are one or two loose ends that should, for neatness sake, be tied up. Seems to me this is the ideal opportunity to find out what happened to the so-called “Nomenclature Review” which has disappeared...