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BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Rowing doctors from Frimley Hospital aim for world record
A rowing team including several doctors from Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey will attempt to set a new world record from group of 12 will try to row 1,000,000 metres non-stop on a pair of rowing machines in less than 62 hours at London's Paddington are also hoping to raise £169,000 for a Hampshire charity that provides exercise therapy for team is led by anaesthetist Gihan Ganesh, whose daughter received treatment for a rare tumour when she was a year old. He said he took up rowing as the only brief exercise he had time for during her has set the target of £169,000, as it will be £1,000 for every day she was money will be used to help the Momentum in Fitness charity provide exercise therapy at the Piam Brown children's cancer ward of Southampton General Hospital.
BBC News
14-03-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Frimley Park Hospital rebuild site to be confirmed in May
A preferred site for the new Frimley Park Hospital is set to be announced in May, councillors have been existing site has been found to be made of two thirds crumbling concrete, known as government confirmed its rebuild would go ahead following a review of the previous government's new hospitals programme in January, which promised 40 new hospitals by Park in Surrey Heath was one of six that Health Secretary Wes Streeting said would "need to proceed at pace" and placed in wave one of the government rollout. The new hospital has been given £2bn, with work scheduled to begin between 2028 and Forest councillors were told on Wednesday the preferred site for the new hospital was expected to be announced in May, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Caroline Egglestone, who sits on the Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny commission for the project, told full council that construction could begin as soon as the trust was ready. NHS Frimley has been working with architects and health planners, construction consultants, energy specialists, transport planners and environmental advisors to select a preferred this work continues the trust is carrying out a "robust programme of remedial works" to the existing Trust says this work "will remain a priority" until the new hospital also updated colleagues on a new extension to the hospital, set to have a phased opening from 76-inpatient beds will provide "much needed additional capacity" and will help the trust managed the increased demand experienced in recent years, she said.
