{"id":786140,"date":"2026-09-29T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786140\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:52:14","slug":"ruh-baths-12m-urgent-treatment-centre-to-cut-ae-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786140\/","title":{"rendered":"RUH Bath&#8217;s \u00a312m urgent treatment centre to &#8216;cut A&#038;E pressure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Construction has begun on a new \u00a312m Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) which health chiefs hope will reduce wait times in A&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheduled to open in December at the Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH), health bosses have said the centre will offer better experiences for patients with non-threatening illnesses and injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once completed, the new centre will replace the RUH&#8217;s current UTC, which is based within A&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Palmer, RUH managing director, said: &#8220;The start of construction work marks a major milestone in our plans to further improve urgent and emergency care services for our patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction has begun on a new \u00a312m Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) which health chiefs hope will reduce wait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786140","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\/786140","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=786140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}