{"id":693411,"date":"2026-05-25T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693411\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:33:08","slug":"prince-william-visits-new-hospital-facility-on-isles-of-scilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693411\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William visits new hospital facility on Isles of Scilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hicks, who has worked at the hospital for 35 years, said: &#8220;There is a bit of a running joke, when the project was first talked about&#8230; I said I&#8217;ll believe it when we are actually walking around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Here we are today with Prince William walking around this fabulous facility, and we are living it and breathing it &#8211; it is truly amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince William was given a tour of the site, which included the new maternity suite, minor injury unit, inpatient ward, and care home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The facility secured planning and national funding approvals in May 2024, and the build began three months later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said the project was a collaboration between them, Council of the Isles of Scilly, primary care, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, voluntary sector partners and mental health services in collaboration with the Duchy of Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Mitchell, Head of Integrated Professions, said the old building was a challenge but a &#8220;loved challenge&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The building that we have got now will just help support our team here on the Isles of Scilly to deliver the healthcare that they passionately believe that they can deliver on the island,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hicks, who has worked at the hospital for 35 years, said: &#8220;There is a bit of a running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-693411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693411","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=693411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}