{"id":311613,"date":"2025-12-12T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311613\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:22:12","slug":"nhs-highland-takes-safety-precautions-amid-rising-flu-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311613\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Highland takes safety precautions amid rising flu cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS Highland has asked people visiting its hospitals to wear face masks due to rising levels of flu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health board said its staff would also be wearing masks as a protective measure while working in hospitals or out in the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS Highland said it was taking extra precautions to protect patients and keep essential services running when they were most needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said masks would be made available to hospital visitors on arrival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS Highland has asked people visiting its hospitals to wear face masks due to rising levels of flu.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-311613","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\/311613","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=311613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}