JOAN Pritchard-Jones and others who voted in the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election for Andy Burnham, former MP for Leigh, should pray that they never have to go to the A & E Department at The Royal Bolton Hospital.

He was the Secretary of State for Health in the last Labour government which closed the A & E Department at Leigh Infirmary.

This added to the problems at our hospital which already had one of the busiest A & E Departments in Greater Manchester.

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Bolton