{"id":43211,"date":"2025-10-31T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=43211"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:17:11","slug":"bristol-hospitals-in-crisis-critical-alert-as-ae-nightmare-hits-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2025\/10\/31\/bristol-hospitals-in-crisis-critical-alert-as-ae-nightmare-hits-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol hospitals in crisis: Critical alert as A&E nightmare hits elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hospitals in Bristol and Weston Super Mare are experiencing serious difficulty (Picture: Nick Bell via Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A critical incident has been declared today at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston (UHBW) NHS Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bristol Royal Infirmary, Children’s Hospital, St Michael’s & Weston General have all been overwhelmed by “exceptionally high demand” according to a statement from Professor Stuart Walker, Hospital Managing Director for UHBW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patients have been urged to call NHS 111 first and attend appointments unless told otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation is emblematic of a nationwide NHS issue, with charity Age UK<\/a> reporting that 1.7 million people had to wait 12 hours for a consultation in 2024\/2025, two-thirds of whom were over 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan, 79, waited for 22 hours after experiencing a heart attack, telling the BBC: “I heard two people die next to me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Age UK director Caroline Abrahams added that there was “rot eating the NHS heart” while the Royal College of Nursing called the situation a “moral stain”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A critical incident has been declared today at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston (UHBW) NHS Trust. Bristol Royal Infirmary, Children’s Hospital, St Michael’s & Weston General have all been overwhelmed by “exceptionally high demand” according to a statement from Professor Stuart Walker, Hospital Managing Director for UHBW. Patients have been urged to call NHS 111 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":43238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43250,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43211\/revisions\/43250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}