{"id":369705,"date":"2025-12-24T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369705\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:26:12","slug":"ashgate-hospice-cuts-19-jobs-including-nursing-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369705\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashgate Hospice cuts 19 jobs including nursing roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosses said a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly060zgv55o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">community fundraiser<\/a>, which raised more than \u00a3244,000, had kept two additional inpatient beds open for at least nine months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The money also protected four full-time nurse posts and three full-time healthcare assistant posts, all on fixed-term contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson from the hospice said: &#8220;This has been one of the most difficult periods the hospice has faced in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Throughout the consultation, colleagues across Ashgate showed professionalism, honesty and compassion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Care for patients remained outstanding, and staff shared thoughtful and constructive feedback, which played a meaningful role in shaping the final decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We continue to speak up for fair and sustainable funding from the NHS so that Ashgate can remain here for future generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the new year, hospice bosses said they planned to meet Derbyshire MPs, regional NHS leaders and health minister Stephen Kinnock to try to work towards resolving the funding challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bosses said a recent community fundraiser, which raised more than \u00a3244,000, had kept two additional inpatient beds open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-369705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}