{"id":180227,"date":"2025-10-05T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:15:07","slug":"kent-hospital-says-future-is-neighbourhood-care-amid-shut-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180227\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent hospital says &#8216;future is neighbourhood care&#8217; amid shut ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms McCormick, the chief executive of Kent Community Health, said the trust had been &#8220;doing lots of recruitment&#8221; and that she was &#8220;really optimistic&#8221; about the progress made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The staffing situation &#8220;did reach a critical point quite quickly&#8221; in July, she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/m000dk0t\/politics-south-east\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Politics South East<\/a>, after staff left or were off sick within a &#8220;couple of days&#8221;, including in leadership roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that all of those things came together but it was very much on the grounds of safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said December was only a target for reopening and was contingent on staff inductions going smoothly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ward&#8217;s remaining staff are deployed in community teams or at other hospitals during the closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms McCormick, the chief executive of Kent Community Health, said the trust had been &#8220;doing lots of recruitment&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-180227","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\/180227","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=180227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}