Prof Harmer said that the NCF had not been aware that the health board had decided to deliberately omit plans to reorganise secondary care - general hospital services - from its consultation document and focus instead on changes to primary care - GP and community hospitals - and specialist hospital services.

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At Massachusetts General Hospital, families of admitted intensive care unit patients are invited to make posters with photos so that hospital staff members have a better sense of who they are.

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Some patients were moved to West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen, while some received community care.

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Staff at Eastbourne District General Hospital have met NHS bosses over proposals to downgrade services amid claims that patient care will suffer.

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All special care baby unit and consultant-led maternity services at Furness General Hospital were due to move to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

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Artists are now busily at work in the soon-to-be-opened Margaret Kerr Palliative Care Unit at Borders General Hospital near Melrose.

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In December 2007, the trust announced it wanted to upgrade the maternity unit at Conquest Hospital leaving Eastbourne District General with midwife-led care only.

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Ms Stevenson, who now lives on Australia's Gold Coast, told the inquest the operation had been a success and Hayley had been transferred to the hospital's paediatric intensive care unit, where she spent 17 days before being moved to a general ward.

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Study leader Dr Martin Wildman, consultant in respiratory medicine at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, said in an averagely-sized hospital the decision to admit a patient with COPD to intensive care probably happens once a week - or two to three times a week in winter.

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