{"id":371265,"date":"2026-01-15T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:50:14","slug":"warning-as-southampton-ae-wait-times-surge-to-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371265\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning as Southampton A&#038;E wait times surge to 12 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An NHS trust has urged people to consider their options before going to its emergency department after waiting times reached up to 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust said the emergency department at Southampton General Hospital on Tremona Road was currently under &#8220;extreme pressure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said anyone in need of urgent care that is not life-threatening should use the urgent treatment centres at Royal South Hants Hospital in Southampton or Lymington New Forest Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said patients with minor health concerns should consider their community pharmacy for advice and treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NHS trust has urged people to consider their options before going to its emergency department after waiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371265","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=371265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}