A NEW specialist bath has been installed at Bolton Hospice Inpatient Unit, after a Gannett Foundation Grant.

The foundation contributed £10,000 towards the £19,787 cost of the bath, hoist and installation.

Patients at the hospice with limited mobility rely on the assisted bath which began to leak and needed to be replaced.

More than 300 patients stay at the inpatient unit every year and the bath is used daily. Gannet Inc is the American owner of Newsquest Media Group, which publishes the Bolton Evening News.