Staff will be recruited to support 52 extra beds in Shrewsbury and Telford, bosses insist.
set to provide an extra 5,000 beds across England this winter, to reduce pressures and lower waiting lists.
Dr Nick White, chief medical officer at SaTH, said he was "delighted" to have received approval to build wards which would help to "alleviate the pressure," seen at the sites during the winter months. He said the purpose of the extra beds was to provide appropriate "sub-acute care services" on an inpatient basis, for those patients who had already completed acute treatment but still required rehabilitation.
The aim of the new facilities was to "reduce ambulance handover delays" and "emergency department overcrowding," resulting in "fewer delays" for patients waiting for operations, he added. "In preparation for the new sub-acute and rehabilitation wards, we are in the process of developing a recruitment strategy to plan and secure the range of staff we will need," he said.
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