"THIS is not about taking care away from patients, it's about making a delivery of urgent care more appropriate to their needs, by enhancing the delivery of care for patients" - thus the Globe quote's Dr Cowan, medical director of Wirral CCG (December 12, 2018).

I was a barrister for 42 years. My wife has a doctorate in education.

My son has a first in English.

None of us could make any sense of this.

As expressed, it is meaningless.

If this is the language of the medical director, I now understand why Wirral CCG has completed failed to communicate the 'merits' of its good idea to the population and politicians of Wirral.

Roughly one-in-eight of the adult population of Wirral has signed petitions against the move.

Politicians national and local, so far as I know of all political opinions, have spoken out against the plan.

May I spell it out in five plain English words?

This is a bad idea.

If the CCG is accountable to the people it serves (and it will be after this) it should recognise that the idea is dead.

Do not wait until April.

Bite the bullet.

Francis Nance, Wallasey