Current medical changes enthusiastically welcomed (9)

I believe the answer is:

acclaimed

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'enthusiastically welcomed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'current medical changes' is the wordplay.
'current' becomes 'ac' (alternating current).
'changes' indicates anagramming the letters.
'medical' with letters rearranged gives 'claimed'.
'ac'+'claimed'='ACCLAIMED'

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(Other definitions for acclaimed that I've seen before include "Strongly praised" , "Hailed, heralded" , "Highly respected" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.

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