Health boss Alison Knowles said two new staff had been recruited to work at Savernake Hospital in Marlborough, where half of the 24 beds have been closed due to a lack of staff.
NHS Wiltshire, which operates the hospital, closed 12 beds at the end of last month. They will stay closed for three months while the NHS tires to recruit permanent staff.
Ms Knowles, director of strategy and communications, told Wiltshire Council’s health and adult social care select committee last Thursday that the NHS had begun recruiting.
She said: “We held interviews last Friday and we have recruited two people from that and we plan to hold a recruiting event in Marlborough.”
Ms Knowles said the 12 beds had been closed as there was a 40 per cent vacancy rate of healthcare assistants and qualified nursing staff.
She said: “We ran five recruitment campaigns in the last few months with very little effect.”
The beds had been closed because the director of nursing did not want to rely on agency staff as the situation was putting pressure on the permanent staff.
“As soon as it is safe to do so we will reopen beds,” she said.
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