{"id":306095,"date":"2025-12-09T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306095\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:43:10","slug":"king-george-hospital-boiler-failure-impacts-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/306095\/","title":{"rendered":"King George Hospital boiler failure impacts patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The hospital has been left without heating or hot water today (December 8) after the failure of a boiler.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Portable heaters have been distributed, according to Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romfordrecorder.co.uk\/topics\/barking-havering-and-redbridge-university-hospitals-nhs-trust-bhrut\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BHRUT<\/a>) which runs King George, and a temporary boiler will be installed while the trust finds a permanent solution.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is not clear at this stage how long it will take to fix the boiler.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romfordrecorder.co.uk\/news\/25677156.bhrut-data-incident-patient-staff-data-stolen\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BHRUT data incident: Patient and staff data stolen<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fiona Wheeler, chief operating officer at BHRUT, apologised to patients and staff affected and said the hospital is working to resolve the issue &#8220;as quickly as possible&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Wheeler said: &#8220;We\u2019re sorry to all patients and staff who have been affected by the boiler failure at King George Hospital, we\u2019re working to fix this as quickly as possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Portable heaters were distributed throughout the hospital as soon as we were aware of this and a temporary boiler will be in place while the issue is resolved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hospital has been left without heating or hot water today (December 8) after the failure of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-306095","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\/306095","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=306095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}