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There will be a public coluantstion on the merger (now called an aquisition) of TGH with manchester royal infirmary. Unfortunately this will probably take place AFTER all the acute services (accident and emergency, general surgery and medicine) have moved. You will no longer be able to have an emergency operation or a planned operation at Trafford. Not only does this mean as patients you will need to travel to Manchester but your relatives will have to brave rush hour traffic to visit you (oh yes, there is no direct bus route either) As a surgical patient you can be investigated at Trafford, meet, get to know and plan your operation with your consultant, go to the MRI and be operated on by your consultant and then, be looked after by a group of doctors you've never met (as your consultant will be back at Trafford). So that's great continuity of care isn't it?If you have a medical problem, you too will be shipped off to manchester as there are plans only for a few overnight beds for patients well enough to go home the next day. But don't worry, if you need an orthopaedic operation then you can have that at Trafford. But if you do, please don't get a complication as there will be no physician or surgeon on site. But I'm sure that will be fine you can be popped in an ambulance and taken to the mother ship (MRI) to get the correct and appropriate treatment, and if it was a false alarm you can be ferried back to Trafford Hurray!Also you need to remember to become unwell between the hours of 7am and 9pm because that's when the A+E will be open and the ambulances will be waiting to transfer you to the MRI where I'm sure there will be a bed available on your arrival (remember when there was a fire at trafford and all ambulances were diverted for 24 hours and the surrounding A+E departments ground to a halt with sheer numbers ?). Let's hope whoever is staffing the new walk in centre can diagnose you as it doesn't look like it will be staffed by A+E doctors (still under discussion I say discussion, there's been none, more a dictatorship). So off you will go, by ambulance to MRI, its a good job there's a bus stop outside the unit for your relatives to jump on the bus, get off at St Peters square and grab another bus to the MRI not to worry, you'll probably still be queuing outside on a trolly so they won't have missed anything.I'm sure it will also please the residents of trafford to know that when Fred the weatherman opened the state of the art Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which was built at vast expense, it was known at that point it was shutting (high dependency beds only), perhaps he should have been booked for a closing down party as well (Let's hope none of you orthopaedic patients need ventilating).so the public coluantstion will take place you will be well informed (NOT), your views will be taken into consideration (NOT) and all will be happy (especially staff who still have jobs). Let's hope the coluantstion is as informative as a)the one we had prior to our maternity closing b) as informative as the coluantstions that took place before Burnley and Rochdale Hospitals shut (residents knew nothing)So to the 200,000 residents of Trafford its exciting times ahead with the new and improved development of services at Trafford General the Birthplace of the NHS.Mmmmm now I have to say I have spoken as a Trafford resident, not as a member of staff As a member of staff I do not wish to express my views on the merger .PS I wonder what a new house will go for on the land that was Trafford General (prime land will get the MRI out of a significant amount of their debt)