{"id":367299,"date":"2026-01-13T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:15:24","slug":"delayed-medical-appointment-letters-an-absolute-disgrace-blasts-former-mayor-pat-ramsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367299\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed medical appointment letters an \u2018absolute disgrace\u2019, blasts former mayor Pat Ramsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft5 beltel-1d70522a_marginright5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Absolute disgrace that important correspondence is being delayed in post, blasts ex-mayor\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Mayor of Derry and MLA Pat Ramsey received his letter after the date of his appointment (Martin McKeown)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/90f2ea04-a3fd-473b-a7a5-7652a8dea601.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_marginleft5 beltel-1d70522a_marginright5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former Mayor of Derry and MLA Pat Ramsey received his letter after the date of his appointment (Martin McKeown)<\/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 former MLA has hit out after a letter about a medical appointment arrived in the post two weeks after he was scheduled to attend.<\/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)\">Pat Ramsey said delays to medical letters over Christmas have caused additional stress and worry for patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Absolute disgrace that important correspondence is being delayed in post, blasts ex-mayor Former Mayor of Derry and MLA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,7375,26371,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-367299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-derry-news","10":"tag-garrett-hargan","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367299","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=367299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}