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Doomed hospital had role in crisis

A HOSPITAL which is to close because health chiefs say it is not viable became a welcome port in a storm this week as staff at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital were pushed close to breaking point.

Sixteen patients were transferred to Standish Hospital after freezing winter temperatures led to a huge increase in emergency admissions.

And on one night alone eight patients were treated in ambulances outside GRH due to an unprecedented number of emergency admissions. Standish is due to close by 2004.

This week's events raised questions amongst Standish supporters and paramedics who claimed that GRH would have been in serious trouble if the axe had already fallen on the hospital.

For more on this story and more, see this week's Stroud News & Journal