PATIENTS were forced to wait before going into hospital because medical services were running short of bed linen.
Consultant cardiologist Dr Alan Myers told Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley health authority the problem became so bad that he asked nurses to keep a check on supplies of linen to his own ward for 12 days.
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