Massive plans revealed for critical new hospital wing at Royal Victoria Infirmary chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HOSPITAL chiefs are set to launch a major bid to build a new wing at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary. It has emerged that plans are in the works for a new development that could house many of the city centre hospital’s specialist healthcare services – including the maternity unit, burns, and critical care. According to a report from Newcastle Hospitals chief executive Dame Jackie Daniel, a funding bid is set to be submitted to the Government later this year to pay for the project. She states that the new facilities, known as either the ‘New Specialist Hospital’ or ‘Richardson wing’, will be “critical” to ensuring the entire region has access to quality specialist care.
Jackie Weaver’s Attack on Democracy
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You’ve all seen the video by now, I’m sure.[1] A Handforth parish council meeting descends into chaos, with snickers and interruptions, before coming to a climax as the Chair and Vice-Chair are thrown out of the meeting. At the centre of it all is Jackie Weaver, host of the Zoom meeting and now widely believed to be the hero of the story. Twitter for the last few days has been abuzz with people ecstatically giggling at the way she dealt with supposedly ‘disruptive’ councillors. Op-eds in major newspapers have praised her for “standing [her] ground with pompous and aggressive men’.[2] She has even been acclaimed as a “feminist icon”: she might one day become Dame Jackie.[3]
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image captionNewcastle has been taking patients from other hospitals in the North East and further afield
Hospitals in Newcastle could stop taking Covid patients from elsewhere in England due to pressure on local services, a health chief has said.
Dame Jackie Daniel told a meeting of city leaders two patients per day had been brought in from elsewhere in the UK for about a week and a half.
She said capacity was being monitored and pressure on hospitals was rising.
City council leader Nick Forbes said it was not in the culture of Newcastle or the NHS to turn people away.
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