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North Yorkshire Hospitals 'Taking Measures' to Relieve Pressures

One of the county's leading health chiefs says hospitals are coping in North Yorkshire despite stresses and shortages.

North Yorkshire's hospitals are facing increasing pressures from a double whammy of increasing demand and staff shortages.

Wendy Balmain from North Yorkshire Clinical Commission Group says they are taking measures to relive some of the pressure including providing more services at weekends where possible:

Despite these increasing pressures on local NHS services, local hospitals are coping.

Wendy says that despite increasing demand for appointments and issues around staffing levels the hospitals are coping but are seeing some lengthy waiting lists:

 

 

 

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