Queue-busting medical centre

LOCAL dignitaries, volunteers and staff took a tour of Torbay’s new state-of-the-art £15 million medical facility, as it opened for the first time.

The new Torbay Hospital Acute Medical Unit will change the way patients needing urgent attention are seen, and it should mean the end of queues of ambulances waiting outside the overcrowded Emergency Department waiting to deliver patients.

Planning for the Torbay Hospital Acute Medical Unit began as long ago as April 2019. Now, after bad weather, economic turmoil and a global pandemic, the new facility is ready.

Sir Richard Ibbotson, who chairs the bay’s NHS Trust, said: “It is enormously impressive and will unquestionably help us to deliver the level of care we all want to deliver for the people we serve.” Fundraising by the hospital’s League of Friends has helped to equip the new unit.