{"id":655714,"date":"2026-06-24T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:50:12","slug":"bedford-train-crash-medics-praised-for-going-above-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655714\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford train crash medics praised for going ‘above and beyond’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jones, from Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our thoughts remain with those who were injured, and everyone who has been affected by this incident. <\/p>\n

“We are incredibly proud of the way our staff and partners responded during such an exceptionally challenging situation.”<\/p>\n

She added she was “deeply moved” by the “incredible teamwork that shone through across our organisation and our community”.<\/p>\n

“Staff came in at short notice, including many who were not scheduled to work, simply because they wanted to help. <\/p>\n

“Teams across both Bedford Hospital and the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital went above and beyond to ensure patients received safe, compassionate care from the moment they arrived.”<\/p>\n

She praised the local volunteer groups and emergency services partners “whose professionalism and coordination were vital in managing such a complex incident”. <\/p>\n

The Cambridgeshire-based Magpas Air Ambulance said it dispatched 10 medical team members<\/a> and treated 30 of the most seriously injured patients. <\/p>\n

Daryl Brown, its chief executive, said it was prepared for “20 fatalities” and transported one patient to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones, from Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our thoughts remain with those who were injured, and everyone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655714","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=655714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}