{"id":411285,"date":"2026-02-06T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411285\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:56:20","slug":"new-health-centre-in-trowbridge-to-ease-hospital-and-gp-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411285\/","title":{"rendered":"New health centre in Trowbridge to ease hospital and GP pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new facility will be similar in build to the ICB&#8217;s Devizes Health Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-64742428\" class=\"ssrcss-edv9ii-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which was opened in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be a gap of just one day whilst services are moved from Trowbridge&#8217;s dated community hospital to the new facility on Hammersmith Fields, just off Seymour Road, according to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-edv9ii-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holmes also called the facility &#8220;a flagship approach to community health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Th ICB claim the Trowbridge Integrated Care Centre will improve access for 35,000 same-day urgent care patients a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it will not cater for patients who need overnight care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neither will it see a return of maternity services \u2013 expectant mums will still have to travel to Chippenham or Frome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new facility will be similar in build to the ICB&#8217;s Devizes Health Centre which was opened in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-411285","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\/411285","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=411285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}