Nucleus hospitals: blending old into new.
A new nucleus hospital at Macclesfield will in three years' time form the keystone of a totally modernised district health service. Meanwhile, 40 miles away at Chester, a similar nucleus scheme is being built using a new type of contract which the DHSS hopes will enable hospitals to be built more quickly, more cheaply. Benjamin Marsh traces the history and the implementation of these schemes.
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