The trust said the hospital was in urgent need of being updated to help staff work more efficiently and to improve emergency care and patient privacy and dignity.

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So what we're saying is we should have the clinical freedoms to work with the patients for the patients' benefit to work out who takes priority in a cash limited system and make sure the patient gets the quality service that they need for their complaint - not the one that's politically expedient.

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