Work has begun on a new regional health facility which will benefit patients in Bishop’s Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Stansted. Last week, demolition work began to clear a site at St Albans City Hospital to build new operating theatres and a surgical procedure room, all due to open their doors next winter. Patients from across Hertfordshire and West Essex who are waiting for non-complex orthopaedic surgery, spinal injections or ear, nose and throat (ENT) procedures will be invited to choose this new health facility for their care. As well as shorter waiting times for patients of East and Nort…