{"id":486603,"date":"2026-06-10T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/486603\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:47:09","slug":"calls-to-replace-high-risk-shetland-hospital-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/486603\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls to replace &#8216;high risk&#8217; Shetland hospital building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joanne said being seen locally was &#8220;100% better&#8221; because she could take someone with her.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We deserve to have good healthcare in Shetland&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gary Robinson said the health board had reduced air miles by 39 per cent: &#8220;We&#8217;ve managed to provide better services for islanders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Calls for a new hospital gained momentum during the Holyrood election campaign earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shetland&#8217;s new SNP MSP Hannah Mary Goodlad, the Scottish government&#8217;s public finance minister, said there was no doubt of the need for a new hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The community wants to see infrastructure that is fit for purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodlad said there was &#8220;cross party desire&#8221; to replace the Gilbert Bain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the minister stressed it was a question of &#8220;how and when&#8221; given capital funding constraints. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joanne said being seen locally was &#8220;100% better&#8221; because she could take someone with her. &#8220;We deserve to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-486603","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\/486603","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=486603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}