{"id":657173,"date":"2026-06-25T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:22:08","slug":"mri-scanners-not-working-at-norfolk-and-norwich-hospital-due-to-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657173\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI scanners not working at Norfolk and Norwich hospital due to heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hospital’s chief operating officer, Chris Cobb, said: “The operational teams are reaching out to other healthcare providers for help, and our estates teams are working towards a cooling resolution; however, this situation may not be resolvable in the short term, particularly while the hot weather lasts.<\/p>\n

“We would like to apologise to everyone affected by this incident.”<\/p>\n

Cobb said staff were working “tirelessly to find a resolution”.<\/p>\n

If patients have not been contacted, they have been advised to attend appointments as normal.<\/p>\n

The disruption comes as other hospitals reported similar problems during the heatwave.<\/p>\n

Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, external<\/a> also declared a critical incident after several of its chiller units failed, leading to increased temperatures across parts of the hospital and affecting services including scanning and IT.<\/p>\n

The incidents underline the pressure extreme heat can place on hospital infrastructure, with cooling system failures at both sites linked to the high temperatures.<\/p>\n

Some experts have warned that many NHS buildings are not well-adapted to cope with prolonged heat.<\/p>\n

A report published in 2025, external<\/a> by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change found that 90% of hospital buildings were vulnerable to overheating. <\/p>\n

Have you been affected by this? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hospital’s chief operating officer, Chris Cobb, said: “The operational teams are reaching out to other healthcare providers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657173","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\/657173","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=657173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}