Once patients were seen, there was often a "bottleneck" in the task of finding an available ward bed for them, inspectors said, and once they were admitted many patients were moved around the hospital too often.

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Moncrieff worked for years with patients in a 22-bed ward at a Brentwood mental hospital.

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About 50 patients a day come into the clinic, and in addition there's a 10-bed ward for people suffering spinal injuries.

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Africa Mercy is currently being converted in the UK from a rail ferry into a hospital ship, complete with six operating rooms and an 80-bed ward.

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Each ward will have two four-bed bays and 24 single rooms on each ward so the majority of children will have their own room with en-suite facilities.

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The new 16-ward, 234-bed unit will be constructed within the hospital's existing grounds and will house patients from the end of 2017, the trust said.

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The new 16 ward, 234-bed unit will be constructed within the hospital's existing grounds and will open to patients at the beginning of 2017, the trust said.

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The first phase of the project included two 25-bed medical wards and one 16-bed paediatric cancer ward.

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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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"My life sentence and nightmare is going to bed at night, closing my eyes and knowing that James lay 40 metres from the hospital ward, cold, alone, uncovered, " she said.

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