A patient at Wexham Park Hospital has tested positive for coronavirus - shutting down its elderly care ward.
The patient has been transferred to an isolation ward at the hospital and they are being monitored and treated.
Staff and any other patients who have come into contact with the ill person are being informed and any patients affected by the temporary closure of the elderly care ward are being contacted.
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Another patient at the hospital who is in hospital after having a planned operation this week said the news was "very worrying".
They added that they were not told directly but overheard staff talking and looked online.
It comes as a Wooburn Green doctor's surgery is shut down for a deep clean amid a potential case of coronavirus and a contact of a High Wycombe school tested positive.
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