{"id":396350,"date":"2026-01-29T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:59:10","slug":"herefordshire-nhs-trust-declares-critical-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396350\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire NHS Trust declares critical incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trust also provides healthcare services at community hospitals in Ross-on-Wye, Leominster and Bromyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are extremely busy and have seen a significant rise in demand for our services. A&amp;E attendances are increasing and we face challenges discharging patients well enough to go home,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;Despite doing all we can to free up capacity, it has become clear we need to prioritise what services we are safely able to deliver at this critical time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On that basis, we have declared an Internal Critical Incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This allows us to take additional steps to maintain safe services for patients and helps us cope with the growing pressures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone who feels unwell has been advised to visit NHS 111 online or get medical advice from a local pharmacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trust also provides healthcare services at community hospitals in Ross-on-Wye, Leominster and Bromyard. &#8220;We are extremely busy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396350","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\/396350","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=396350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}