NHS U-turn saves Charing Cross Hospital

[Northerner]

Charing Cross Hospital has been saved from closure after a dramatic last-minute U-turn by NHS chiefs.

The flagship hospital was to be downgraded to a polyclinic ? or urgent care unit ? and lose its A&E department.

But bosses have apparently decided to keep its A&E unit open, although the most complicated emergencies will go elsewhere. Hammersmith & Fulham council, which made the informal announcement, hailed a major victory. However, campaign groups said the result fell far short of expectations.

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[Vicsetter]

This is a major teaching hospital, so the trainee doctors and nurses will have to go to another A&E to train or will they just learn on the non-difficult emergencies (pots on kids heads, cut fingers and the like).