{"id":219974,"date":"2025-10-23T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219974\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:40:07","slug":"staff-shortages-see-heart-surgery-paused-at-glasgow-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219974\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff shortages see heart surgery paused at Glasgow hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/queen-elizabeth-university-hospital\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Queen Elizabeth University Hospital<\/a>, the 256 bed facility cares for children and young people up to the age of 16.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read More:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It&#8217;s understood some patients in need of urgent surgery have been transferred to England due to the shortages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/nhs-greater-glasgow-clyde\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde<\/a> said: &#8220;Due to a short-term staffing gap caused by sickness absence and vacancies in a specialist service, we have paused paediatric cardiac surgery at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0&#8220;We envisage this to last no more than a few weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0&#8220;A small number of patients will have their surgery undertaken in another UK Centre.\u00a0 We have well established pathways with carefully chosen UK expert sites for doing this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;All transport, accommodation and living costs for the child and their family will be covered while they are away from home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0&#8220;The temporary arrangement has been made in close conjunction and agreement with National Services Division who commission the service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, the 256 bed facility cares for children and young people up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-219974","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\/219974","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=219974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}