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Ministers urged to ‘take their heads out of the sand’ as hospital prepares to move patients to hotel
Nurses changing their PPE on Ward 5, a Covid Red Ward, at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, in January 2021

by Ceren Sagir

MINISTERS need to “take their heads out of the sand,” health campaigners said today as a hospital prepared to move patients to a hotel to free up beds.

Up to 15 people will receive care at a Norwich city-centre hotel in a pilot scheme that will last three months, said NHS Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

A critical incident declared in the area’s health and care system remains in force.

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