A brand new 20-bed ward at Nottingham City Hospital has welcomed its first patients. The Jubilee Unit, which opened on the hospital campus on Monday (January 30), is part of Nottingham University Hospitals' (NUH) drive to reduce surgery waiting lists.
The digestive diseases ward will support patients who have undergone operations such as on the colon, rectum, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts. One of its first patients, Sylvia Woodhouse, from Long Eaton, said the ward was "very nice".
The 73-year-old, one of two patients in the ward on Wednesday, enjoyed a spacious private room, with an adjoining bathroom. She said she had waited around nine months to have part of her bowel removed and a stoma fitted after experiencing pains last May. Her operation took place at the end of last week.
