BOLTON hospital bosses are continuing to press for more Government money to boost the accident and emergency unit.
Last month Bolton Hospitals Trust failed to get any money from the NHS Modernisation Fund to extend A and E at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
But in Tuesday's Budget, Chancellor Gordon Brown gave new hope.
He announced a surprise £500 million injection for hospital casualty departments and said every accident and emergency unit in the country which needs modernisation is to get extra cash over the next 12 months.
Ann Schenck, director of service development with Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust , said: "If these are new monies then we shall be at the front of the queue bidding for them.
"Pressures on A and E mean we are short of space and we are very keen to extend the unit to accommodate the increasing numbers of patients we are seeing."
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