Big changes are planned for the way hospital services are organised on Merseyside.
The changes could mean a move to create a hub for specialist, planned, elective surgery at the Royal Liverpool hospital site with emergency or acute surgery to be carried out at Aintree Hospital.
The move, which will affect patients across Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley will affect five key areas – general surgery, breast surgery, nephrology (kidney) medicine, vascular surgery and neurology.
