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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray

‘Care hotel’ set up in Norwich to relieve ‘unprecedented’ pressure on hospitals

Doctor And Nurse Pulling Stretcher In Hospital
Norfolk and Waveney CCG is to use a hotel in central Norwich as a temporary care facility after a critical incident was declared. Photograph: Montgomery Martin/Alamy

Norfolk has become the latest area in England to start transferring patients to a hotel in order to free up hospital beds.

The Norfolk and Waveney clinical commissioning group (CCG) said the hotel would act as a temporary care facility, after the service declared a critical incident this month due to “sustained and unprecedented pressure”.

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