{"id":179788,"date":"2025-10-05T03:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179788\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T03:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T03:45:22","slug":"southmead-hospital-opens-elective-surgery-centre-to-ease-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179788\/","title":{"rendered":"Southmead Hospital opens elective surgery centre to ease backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first patients moved into the centre on 22 August, ahead of the first operations \u202ffour days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre has 12 medirooms where patients are admitted prior to surgery and afterwards for recovery. It also houses the Rowan Ward for inpatient stays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kenneth Middleton, who had just undergone a hip operation in the Brunel building, was the first person through the doors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing building, and as I was coming in I felt it didn&#8217;t have the feeling of a hospital, it&#8217;s a bit like a five star hotel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It appears, from what I have seen, to be very relaxing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first patients moved into the centre on 22 August, ahead of the first operations \u202ffour days later.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-179788","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\/179788","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=179788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}