{"id":164509,"date":"2025-09-27T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164509\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:33:08","slug":"work-begins-on-shepton-mallet-hospitals-new-outpatient-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164509\/","title":{"rendered":"Work begins on Shepton Mallet hospital&#8217;s new outpatient building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A hospital is hoping to expand services and increase its patient care as work on a new building gets underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new facility, dedicated to outpatient appointments and minor treatments, will be an extension of Practice Plus Group Hospital Shepton Mallet, which is located on Old Wells Road in the Somerset town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Available to both NHS and private patients who are treated by its Wellsoon private healthcare service, the building is said to include five consulting rooms and a dedicated treatment room for those experiencing age-related macular degeneration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital&#8217;s director, Catherine Farr, said the investment was a &#8220;major step forward&#8221; for its patients and the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hospital is hoping to expand services and increase its patient care as work on a new building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-164509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}