{"id":72313,"date":"2025-10-13T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:22:07","slug":"councillor-fears-cirencester-hospital-downgrading-could-become-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72313\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor fears Cirencester Hospital downgrading could become permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucestershire Health &amp; Care NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, said the alterations are part of a &#8220;test of change&#8221; to improve patient care, experience and outcomes and increase efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Harris said NHS bosses were using Cirencester Hospital as &#8220;dumping ground&#8221; for endless &#8220;trials and cuts&#8221;, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Citing what he said had been a lack of public consultation, he added: &#8220;There is simply no confidence that this six-month &#8216;pause&#8217; won&#8217;t become permanent by default.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris is calling on NHS Gloucestershire to guarantee that all services currently paused will be reinstated after the trial period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rather than downgrading services in Cirencester, we should be investing in our community hospitals to keep care close to home and take the pressure off the larger acute hospitals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire Health &amp; Care NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, said the alterations are part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-72313","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\/72313","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=72313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}