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Primary Care Trusts and Ambulance Trusts

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I am pleased that my primary care trust will still be called the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT because I would be in great trouble indeed if it was called something else. I understand that such local connections and ties are extremely important and am pleased that Heywood has been recognised in the name of my hon. Friend’s PCT. As I said in reply to the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker), it is crucial that the new organisations serve all parts of the areas that they cover and, especially, that they pick out the health needs in those areas and bear down on the health inequalities that are important to him, me and Greater Manchester in particular.