{"id":574453,"date":"2026-08-20T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574453\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:36:08","slug":"water-leak-temporarily-closes-heart-clinics-at-edinburgh-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574453\/","title":{"rendered":"Water leak temporarily closes heart clinics at Edinburgh hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Tracey Gillies, medical director of NHS Lothian, said the situation was being monitored by experts but that there was &#8220;no infection risk associated with this leak to staff or patients&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Remedial work is underway following a water leak at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some mould was located in some areas of the non-clinical environment as a consequence of the water leak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a precaution, two specialist vascular procedure labs have been taken out of use while it is removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Gillies said patients do not need to do anything and would be contacted directly by their clinical team if necessary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We apologise to affected patients for the inconvenience and would reassure them that we are working to restore services safely and as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Tracey Gillies, medical director of NHS Lothian, said the situation was being monitored by experts but that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-574453","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\/574453","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=574453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}