{"id":348507,"date":"2026-03-26T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348507\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:17:07","slug":"preparation-work-on-site-of-new-shotley-bridge-hospital-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348507\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation work on site of new Shotley Bridge Hospital begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project, which has been plagued by delays and inflated costs, finally got the go ahead last year following a review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Project Genesis director Mike Clark said: &#8220;For years, there&#8217;s been understandable concern in Consett about the future of hospital provision and whether the town would lose its chance of a modern healthcare facility. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These remediation works are another important step forward, making the site ready, putting the right infrastructure in place and ensuring we&#8217;re in the strongest possible position to move ahead, when the anticipated agreement is finalised and the trust&#8217;s business case approvals are secured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital had been due to open in 2025 but is expected to be completed by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project, which has been plagued by delays and inflated costs, finally got the go ahead last year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-348507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348507","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=348507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}