{"id":212963,"date":"2025-10-20T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212963\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:59:08","slug":"south-west-acute-hospital-breakdown-in-surgery-pathways-caused-prolonged-handover-delays-says-nias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212963\/","title":{"rendered":"South West Acute Hospital: Breakdown in surgery pathways caused \u2018prolonged handover delays\u2019, says NIAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Internal correspondence has revealed further problems with the arrangements\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8f50347b-e111-4e78-9fbf-2eaaace9a4f9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A breakdown in an agreed process to mitigate against so-called \u2018double ED\u2019 waits in two Western Trust hospitals has resulted in \u201cprolonged handover delays\u201d, the Ambulance Service has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Following the December 2022 suspension of emergency general surgery at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen, pathways were put in place to transfer patients from SWAH to Altnagelvin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internal correspondence has revealed further problems with the arrangements South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen A breakdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2863,7374,102,43348,2960,2859,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-department-of-health","tag-fermanagh-news","tag-health","tag-health-trusts","tag-healthcare","tag-liam-tunney","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212963","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=212963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}