Why choose Bishop Auckland as the planned care site?
A. Bishop Auckland is being proposed as the site for planned services because it is reasonably central and therefore well placed for patients from the wider area. Developing Bishop Auckland as one of the acute sites would require extensive building works, therefore delaying implementation beyond an acceptable timescale for sustaining services. More patients would be likely to go to other hospitals outside the area if acute services were not provided in either Darlington or Durham.
