{"id":293039,"date":"2025-12-01T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293039\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:12:19","slug":"co-fermanagh-trust-consultations-over-swah-surgery-closure-were-a-done-deal-health-committee-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293039\/","title":{"rendered":"Co Fermanagh: Trust consultations over SWAH surgery closure were a \u2018done deal\u2019, Health Committee hears"},"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\">Trust chiefs faced questions from MLAs over the consultation process\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South West Acute Hospital (SWAH), Co Fermanagh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d018ac25-4230-4bc0-b6f2-1b954f491d38.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), Co Fermanagh<\/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)\">Consultations held by a Northern Ireland health trust over the cessation of emergency general surgery (EGS) at a Co Fermanagh hospital were not genuine, Stormont\u2019s Health Committee has been told.<\/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)\">The service has been temporarily suspended at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Co Fermanagh since December 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trust chiefs faced questions from MLAs over the consultation process South West Acute Hospital (SWAH), Co Fermanagh Consultations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2863,102,43348,2960,2859,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-293039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-department-of-health","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\/293039","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=293039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}