{"id":372232,"date":"2026-04-03T02:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372232\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:24:19","slug":"nhs-care-complex-after-fathers-leg-amputation-daughter-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372232\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS care complex after father\u2019s leg amputation, daughter says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A father went from playing golf to losing a leg and spending months lost in a &#8220;confusing, fragmented care system&#8221;, his daughter has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Teasdale told bosses at an NHS Surrey &amp; Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) meeting on Wednesday that staff were &#8220;absolutely amazing&#8221; and saved her father&#8217;s life, but that the care system was &#8220;incredibly complex&#8221;, leaving her to coordinate everything herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Board members agreed improvements were needed, admitting the system was &#8220;complicated and poorly joined up&#8221;, with one senior figure stating: &#8220;We focus on the task, but forget the whole patient journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Smith, chair of the NHS Surrey &amp; Sussex ICB, recognised &#8220;genuine concerns&#8221; were raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father went from playing golf to losing a leg and spending months lost in a &#8220;confusing, fragmented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-372232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372232","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=372232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}