behind the scenes of how one of the uk s biggest hospitals transitions from old to new. we are going this way. liverpool s biggest hospital is on the move. ward 7a is ready to release patients. more than 600 patients and thousands of staff will be transferred to a brand new building. i m quite nervous. we can plan for as many eventualities as possible but actually until the day of the move itself, we won t know exactly who we are transferring. it s taken nine years and more than £850 million to complete. hundred times better, hundred times better. i absolutely cannot wait. any number of things could go wrong, but nothing can. cheering and applause and by the end, the hope is the health services of an entire city will be transformed. absolutely exciting. best thing that could happen to liverpool. siren wails right in the heart of the city, the royal liverpool hospital has been a landmark since the 1970s. i think the building itself at the time it was actually put up was proba
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of our generic awards set into four zones. there is the privacy and dignity from a patient s point of view, so if they are in the room and talking to the doctors or the nurses or anything, there isn t somebody just the other side of a curtain listening. and then there is the infection prevention side of it as well so it is absolutely the state of the art way of hospital care, really. this herejust behind me is one zone, and in this zone there are eight beds and we have two touchdown bases, one just in front of me and one you can see behind me, the nursing staff will sit in this area and be close to the patients so that they know what is going on, the patients can see them, very visible. nursing staff will be used to working in a bigger team than a couple of people so it is a different way of working and we are listening to our staff and their concerns and seeing how we can address them. staff meanwhile are sifting through 50 years worth of accumulated equipment and paperwork. junk the