BMJ 1998;317:352 ( 1 August )

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Health authority was never influenced by party political pressure

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EDITOR---I am writing to comment on Mayor's recent news item about the health secretary forbidding Salford and Trafford Health Authority from continuing its planned reorganisation of children's inpatient care.1 I was chairman of Salford and Trafford Health Authority until 30 June this year, the day that the secretary of state issued his direction. I can give the BMJ's readers a categoric assurance that at no time did the health authority under my chairmanship (from 1994) take any decisions because of party political pressures.

Sonia D Alexander, Former chairman, Salford and Trafford Health Authority. 
1 Plowley Close, Didsbury, Manchester M20 2DB

  1. Mayor S. Dobson stops reorganisation of services at Trafford hospital. BMJ 1998; 316: 161[Free Full Text]. (18 July.)

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