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Patients from West Cumbria requiring high-risk surgery will have to travel to Carlisle as a result of changes announced by the local NHS trust.
Complex operations will no longer take place at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, the North Cumbria University Hospital Trust said.
The distance between the two hospitals is almost 40 miles.
A spokesman for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the move "made sense in clinical terms".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-23977771
Complex operations will no longer take place at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, the North Cumbria University Hospital Trust said.
The distance between the two hospitals is almost 40 miles.
A spokesman for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the move "made sense in clinical terms".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-23977771