THE Great Western Hospital has been given permission to build a 26 bed temporary ward, just five moths after it opened.
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust, which runs the building, hopes it will ease the shortage of beds.
The new ward should open in the autumn and is expected to stay in place until the opened of a £27 million diagnostic centre, which is scheduled for 2005.
The NHS trust's new chief executive Lyn Hill-Tout was present at the meeting, where chairman Maurice Fanning (Lab, Gorse Hill and Pinehurst) said he expected to receive more planning applications from the Trust in future.
He said: "Somewhere along the way we didn't get it quite right but now the hospital is trying to rectify that. It would be nice to see some finality on that site."
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