The new MPs for Pendle and Burnley, Andrew “Ashcroft” Stephenson and Gordon “candlelight vigil” Birtwistle, fought the General Election on a platform promising to restore blue light accident and emergency to Burnley General.

Well, they are buddies now. Coalition partners, so it is time to deliver.

I have made it easier for them.

Professor Matthew Cooke, the National Director of Emergency and Urgent Care, prepared a report on Burnley’s Urgent Care Centre after I raised the issue in the Commons with the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, but its publication was delayed by election purdah.

I am told it is on its way.

I am very much hoping the Prof agrees with me that Burnley can sustain a blue light A&E with protocols in place specifying the conditions which can and cannot be treated there.

Anyway, we shall soon know.

My spies tell me that the North West Strategic Heath Authority received the report last week and that they are currently reviewing it.

As someone who contributed to the review by meeting Professor Cooke face-to-face and lodging a written submission with him (see the campaigns section of my former Pendle MP website), I expect to be getting an embargoed copy before it goes to the SHA Board meeting in mid July when it will be made public.