Service improvements include additional units and some facilities extended to a seven-day service.
The plan will involve recurring costs of £2.6m by 2025/26 but it is hoped this will be balanced out by a reduction in the need for agency nursesA £2.5m investment to improve a hospital's services has been agreed.
Other improvements include the hospital's same-day emergency care expanded to a seven-day-a-week service, running from 8am to 10pm each day, according to theThe plan will also see a new 14-bed older person's assessment unit and the existing monitoring unit turned into a 9-bed unit used by the acute team, and a 6-bed observation unit for the emergency department.
Trust CEO Eugine Yafele praised the "steely determination" of staff at the hospital after their efforts led to the Care Quality Commission raising the hospital's rating from the lowest it can give to "requires improvement."
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