{"id":359241,"date":"2026-01-08T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359241\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:32:11","slug":"catherine-joins-william-in-surprise-visit-to-london-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359241\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine joins William in surprise visit to London hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">William and Catherine are joint patrons of NHS Charities Together, and the Palace said the engagement took place to &#8220;acknowledge the incredible work of NHS staff over a difficult winter period&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple surprised healthcare staff on their tea break and chatted to them about the pressures they faced during the winter virus season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff were gathered in a break room paid for by Imperial Health Charity, which is a member of the umbrella organisation NHS Charities Together, and supports all five of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust&#8217;s hospitals through grants, arts and volunteering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">William and Catherine went on to join a roundtable with NHS charity chief executives, trustees, policymakers and philanthropists to discuss the role of philanthropy in the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple became patrons of NHS Charities Together in 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation represents more than 220 NHS charities from all NHS Trusts and Health Boards across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William and Catherine are joint patrons of NHS Charities Together, and the Palace said the engagement took place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-359241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359241","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=359241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}