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The chief executive of a propped-up hospital said she was confident it would get news of a rebuild soon.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, is supported by about 3,000 props but has yet to be listed on a government rebuild programme.

Alice Webster said staff faced daily challenges to maintain the building.

Reiterating the point that it had no "plan B", she added: "I am confident we'll hear very shortly, [so] we won't need to be thinking down that route."

"Clearly we would like an announcement as soon as is possible and to know we are on the shortlist. We will continue to do everything we can," she told BBC Radio Norfolk.

"We continue to lobby and work very closely with our Members of Parliament.

"Hopefully we will get an announcement very soon."

The hospital opened in 1980 - one of seven built using a material called reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which the NHS estate has promised to remove by 2035.

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One hundred areas of the building, including theatre blocks, are supported by props and every public body in west Norfolk has been backing a campaign to get the hospital replaced.

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