{"id":195703,"date":"2025-12-22T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195703\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:20:07","slug":"uk-faces-epidural-infusion-shortage-as-key-supplier-contract-ends-demand-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195703\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Faces Epidural Infusion Shortage as Key Supplier Contract Ends, Demand Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The UK is experiencing tightening supplies of epidural infusions after a key supplier\u2019s contract expired and demand increased for the anesthetic commonly used by women giving birth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">While alternative epidural products are being made available and patients aren\u2019t currently doing without, health care workers have been warned to be aware of changes to the concentration and bag size of the infusion. Epidurals are given into a patient\u2019s back to prevent pain during childbirth and some surgeries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK is experiencing tightening supplies of epidural infusions after a key supplier\u2019s contract expired and demand increased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[138,2024,246,39372,134,8019,3678,524,4391,111,139,69,121126,643,2025,2248],"class_list":["post-195703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-business","tag-europe","tag-finance","tag-great-britain","tag-health","tag-ireland","tag-labor","tag-medication","tag-national-health-service","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-royal-college-of-anaesthetis","tag-stocks","tag-united-kingdom","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}