 More money for heart facilities in Nottingham |
A Nottingham hospital is getting an extra �21m to be spent on new facilities for heart patients. The government funds will pay for an extra operating theatre and more beds for cardiac surgery patients at Nottingham City Hospital.
The hospital is already a centre of excellence for heart surgery, but patients often have to recuperate in 100-year-old wards that are cramped and offer little privacy.
The hospital has already decided to build a new cardiac centre with new wards that will open in 2005.
Intensive care
The extra money from the government will pay for four in-patient beds, eight day case beds, four intensive care beds, six high dependency beds, a cath lab and a theatre.
These facilities will be part of the special heart centre when it opens.
The hospital is currently part of a new scheme that allows anyone who has been waiting six months for surgery to chose to go elsewhere for their operation or have their surgery done in a private hospital paid for by the NHS.
The money is part of �93m for new heart treatment facilities across England announced by Health Secretary John Reid on Wednesday.
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