PRESSURE on wards at Macclesfield and Leighton Hospitals is to be eased with the provision of extra beds.
Additional intensive care beds are to be installed at the hospitals, one at Macclesfield and two at Leighton, which serve Congleton and Alsager respectively.
The beds will ease pressure on the National Health Service over the difficult winter period, and are part of an extra £1 million in funding from the Department of Health.
"The extra beds means there is less chance of a patient who needs an intensive care or high dependency bed being transferred outside the Cheshire or Mersey area," said a South Cheshire Health spokesman.
"It also means there is less chance a Cheshire patient will have their operation cancelled at short notice because no intensive care or high dependency bed is available."
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