{"id":438051,"date":"2026-05-08T03:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:33:32","slug":"royal-victoria-hospital-belfast-patient-safety-fears-after-ward-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438051\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast patient safety fears after ward attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft5 indo-1d70522a_marginright5 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Patient feared for her life after stranger attacked staff on ward as she lay recovering from surgery\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lorraine Brownlie at her home\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/234ea054-9eac-4b68-bac4-e0569073fca0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft5 indo-1d70522a_marginright5 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lorraine Brownlie at her home<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A woman who was recovering in hospital following major surgery when a male patient entered her room after assaulting nursing staff has told of her terror over the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Lorraine Brownlie decided to speak out about her ordeal at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after reading an article about a sexual assault on another patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patient feared for her life after stranger attacked staff on ward as she lay recovering from surgery Lorraine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4501,103,397,396,61,60,2443],"class_list":["post-438051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-belfast","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}