{"id":584231,"date":"2026-05-14T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:41:10","slug":"what-forced-isle-of-man-hospital-to-issue-its-highest-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584231\/","title":{"rendered":"What forced Isle of Man hospital to issue its highest alert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reid said fewer patients than usual had been discharged from hospital on Monday, leaving beds occupied for longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This created a backlog that spread through the hospital as emergency admissions continued to rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do not want patients cared for in corridors. That&#8217;s not an appropriate way of delivering care,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, managers reviewed discharges across wards, brought in additional staff and increased capacity where possible to ease pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manx Care also cancelled 19 non-urgent procedures, while retaining services for cancer patients and children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reid said fewer patients than usual had been discharged from hospital on Monday, leaving beds occupied for longer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584231","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\/584231","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=584231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}