{"id":174980,"date":"2025-12-09T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174980\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:10:09","slug":"birmingham-hospitals-critical-incident-over-flu-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174980\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham hospitals&#8217; &#8216;critical&#8217; incident over flu admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A critical incident has been declared at four hospitals due to &#8220;exceptional&#8221; numbers of patients with flu.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said &#8220;extreme&#8221; pressures were being experienced across its hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said 269 patients with flu required hospital admission &#8211; with mask-wearing being introduced across all clinical departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust, which runs Good Hope, Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth hospitals in Birmingham as well as Solihull Hospital said emergency departments remained &#8220;overcrowded&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A critical incident has been declared at four hospitals due to &#8220;exceptional&#8221; numbers of patients with flu. University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-174980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}