 A total of 90 beds may close at the hospital to cut costs |
Some 30 beds at a Norfolk hospital will be closed to cut costs and help claw back an �8m overspend. On Monday the board of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn earmarked the beds used by older people for closure.
Two of the hospital's acute wards - 60 beds in all - were also under threat, but that decision has been delayed.
Trust chairman Jeffrey Prosser said beds would not be closed without alternative care available to patients.
The proposed bed closures are part of a three-year plan to sort out the hospital's budget.
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