{"id":786618,"date":"2026-09-29T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786618\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:22:10","slug":"nhs-grampian-stands-down-critical-incident-at-dr-grays-hospital-in-elgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786618\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Grampian stands down critical incident at Dr Gray&#8217;s hospital in Elgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Stephen, the NHS Grampian executive director on call, confirmed: &#8220;I am pleased that, following a sustained effort from colleagues across our health and social care system, we have been able to stand down the hospital-level critical incident at Dr Gray&#8217;s Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However he said pressures had not gone away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen said: &#8220;Our teams continue to manage significant challenges across the health and social care system, and demand for urgent and unscheduled care remains high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will maintain our focus &#8211; working alongside partners &#8211; on reducing delays, supporting timely discharge, and delivering high standards of care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Once again, we sincerely apologise to anyone whose care was delayed or who had to travel further for care this weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A small number of patients were said to have been transferred to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness from Dr Gray&#8217;s late on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen thanked everyone who had gone &#8220;above and beyond&#8221; to improve the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Stephen, the NHS Grampian executive director on call, confirmed: &#8220;I am pleased that, following a sustained effort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786618","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\/786618","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=786618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}