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A Greater Manchester hospital has opened a new accident and emergency department following extensive refurbishment.
Tameside Hospital invested £3 million in its A&E wing to create a larger, more modern unit with improved facilities.
The department now includes a separate children's accident and emergency unit, a dedicated minor injuries area, a major accident area and an extended resuscitation zone.
Consultant Muhammad Qureshi told ITV News: "There were difficulties initially when it was a single emergency department, with not a lot of space and people had to wait a long time to be seen, but now we have 'streams' of patients so the paediatric patients can be seen in a different stream and we can provide much better quality in a very much controlled environment."
The hospital has also revised its disabled parking policy, giving blue badge holders an additional hour of parking time at no extra cost.
Tameside Hospital's A&E department will treat an estimated 75,500 patients over the next year, a figure that has rises by more than 5,000 over the last two decades.
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