{"id":356496,"date":"2026-03-31T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356496\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:00:08","slug":"black-country-patients-urged-to-order-medication-ahead-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356496\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Country patients urged to order medication ahead of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People are being advised to check they have enough medication ahead of the Easter Bank Holiday period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has warned GP surgeries and pharmacies are set to close between Friday and Monday, or operate with reduced hours during the four days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients who need a repeat prescription have been urged to place their orders &#8220;immediately&#8221; as it can take up to 72 hours for medications to be processed and dispensed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Running out of essential medication can lead to unnecessary health risks and puts additional pressure on urgent care services and NHS 111, which often see a significant spike in calls over bank holidays,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Trust said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are being advised to check they have enough medication ahead of the Easter Bank Holiday period. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-356496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356496","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=356496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}