{"id":806350,"date":"2026-10-18T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806350\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:20:30","slug":"queens-and-king-george-hospitals-shuttle-bus-to-be-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806350\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s and King George hospitals shuttle bus to be axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) which runs King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen&#8217;s Hospital in Romford, will be cancelling the staff hopper bus between the two hospitals from January 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The decision has been taken to aid the trust in making a saving of \u00a340 million this financial year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fiona Wheeler, BHRUT&#8217;s interim chief executive, said: \u201cWe\u2019re sorry we\u2019re having to cut the shuttle bus that our staff use to travel between Queen\u2019s and King George hospitals.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s one of the difficult decisions we\u2019ve had to make to save \u00a340m this financial year. The removal of the shuttle bus will save around \u00a3273,000 a year and it won\u2019t directly impact patients.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cOur staff will be able to travel between the hospitals on the new TfL Superloop bus service which runs regularly, seven days a week.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In April 2025, then chief executive Matthew Trainer said the trust had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romfordrecorder.co.uk\/news\/25155403.wes-streeting-urges-wiser-nhs-spending-east-london-hospital-visit\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">been instructed to make cuts after already saving \u00a330m two years in a row<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He warned it would be a \u201cvery, very hard year\u201d and the cuts would take the trust into \u201cradically new territory\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) which runs King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806350","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\/806350","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=806350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}