{"id":143629,"date":"2025-05-30T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143629\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:26:25","slug":"royal-victoria-hospital-cardiac-unit-patients-lives-were-put-at-risk-by-toxic-culture-in-belfast-unit-issues-will-shock-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143629\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Victoria Hospital cardiac unit: Patients\u2019 lives \u2018were put at risk\u2019 by\u00a0\u2018toxic culture\u2019 in Belfast unit: \u2018Issues\u00a0will shock everyone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Agreement to publish \u201cdamning\u201d report following an independent external reviewDUP MLA Diane Dodds added: \u201cThe behaviour uncovered is beyond belief\u201dHealth Minister Mike Nesbitt said he expects to see \u201cmeaningful and lasting improvements\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A damning report in relation to the Cardiac Unit at Royal Victoria Hospital is to be published.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eff81409-9a7d-4592-a257-17fd03e58c3e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A damning report in relation to the Cardiac Unit at Royal Victoria Hospital is to be published.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Patients were harmed and put at risk as a result of cultural tensions, bullying and \u201cpoor behaviour\u201d in the only cardiac surgery unit in Northern Ireland, an MLA has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">DUP MLA Diane Dodds today welcomed the Health Minister\u2019s agreement to her request to publish a \u201cdamning report\u201d into the Cardiac Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital \u2013 with the Belfast Trust accepting there has been \u201can intolerable working environment\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agreement to publish \u201cdamning\u201d report following an independent external reviewDUP MLA Diane Dodds added: \u201cThe behaviour uncovered is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[22305,105,4348,15288,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-garrett-hargan","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114595835706669982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}