{"id":234162,"date":"2025-10-30T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234162\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:00:12","slug":"royal-lancaster-infirmary-warns-of-pressures-on-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234162\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Lancaster Infirmary warns of pressures on services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust that runs the Royal Lancaster Infirmary said it remains at the highest level of alert due to &#8220;significant and growing demand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital said it was &#8220;unable to deliver comprehensive care&#8221;, putting patient safety at risk and had been escalated to Level 4 on the system the NHS uses to grade demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust first warned of &#8220;stress, demand and pressure&#8221; at the hospital on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Measures were being taken, including cancelling non-essential meetings to redirect clinicians&#8217; time to helping patients, and using alternative options to the Emergency Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust that runs the Royal Lancaster Infirmary said it remains at the highest level of alert due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234162","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\/234162","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=234162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}