{"id":757528,"date":"2026-06-24T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757528\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:40:15","slug":"patient-waits-17-hours-for-hospital-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757528\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient waits 17 hours for hospital bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a 17-hour wait for a bed in the emergency department at Westmead Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Will Bottom, our award-winning newsbreaker and traffic guru, found himself out of action for the last couple of days with a health issue.<\/p>\n<p>Hear more highlights from Ben Fordham Live in the playlist below and give us a follow on <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3HtVMMC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>IMAGE CREDIT \/ SUPPLIED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeff There\u2019s been a 17-hour wait for a bed in the emergency department at Westmead Hospital. It comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-757528","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\/757528","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=757528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}