He was transferred from intensive care to the ward one day after surgery.

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Bristol, who had scrum-half Shaun Perry back in the squad for the first time this season after recovering from shoulder surgery, responded through their forwards, number eight Ward-Smith scoring from close range after a trademark drive from the pack.

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Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said the new ward would be used by patients recovering from surgery, but only when there were no beds available in the main hospital.

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But at the same time, the health service is changing - average lengths of stay in hospitals are about one third shorter than they were 10 years ago, and there is more surgery where patients don't have to stay overnight on a ward.

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The revamp also includes a new day surgery unit, two new operating theatres, a short-stay surgical ward and a maternity unit.

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Two years later they lobbied the state legislature to allow them to add a recovery ward, X-ray unit and kitchen to convert the surgery center into a hospital.

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In an anecdote that encapsulates the dopiness and high drama of adolescence as well as the developing Shreve's outrageous personality, she recalls steering herself in her wheelchair into the boys' ward, where the charismatic Joey Buckley was lying in his bed, recovering from surgery.

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