{"id":358493,"date":"2026-01-08T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:47:11","slug":"swah-campaign-group-launches-legal-action-against-ni-health-trust-over-emergency-surgery-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358493\/","title":{"rendered":"SWAH: Campaign group launches legal action against NI health trust over emergency surgery move"},"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\">The action is challenging the Trust\u2019s decisions around the suspension\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a1d076bf-8c3a-455a-8546-7efc822a4276.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) in Enniskillen<\/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)\">A campaign group has launched legal action against a Northern Ireland health trust over a decision to remove emergency general surgery from a Co Fermanagh hospital.<\/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":"The action is challenging the Trust\u2019s decisions around the suspension South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[7374,102,43348,2960,2859,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-fermanagh-news","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\/358493","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=358493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}