{"id":219463,"date":"2025-06-27T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219463\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:09:51","slug":"belfast-maternity-hospital-fears-contractor-would-walk-away-from-671m-childrens-hospital-amid-legal-issues-over-maternity-hospital-internal-documents-rev-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219463\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Maternity Hospital: Fears contractor would \u2018walk away\u2019 from \u00a3671m Children\u2019s Hospital amid \u2018legal issues\u2019 over Maternity Hospital, internal documents reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The new regional children\u2019s hospital project has faced protracted delays\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/childrens_hospital.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)\">The new regional children\u2019s hospital project has faced protracted delays<\/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)\">Health officials were concerned a contractor behind Belfast\u2019s crisis-hit Maternity Hospital was going to \u201cwalk away\u201d from the \u00a3671m Children\u2019s Hospital project and insisted on getting more money, internal documents reveal.<\/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)\">Information from last December, which the department intended to conceal, but seen by the Belfast Telegraph, shows that the contractor was unhappy with the way matters were handled regarding the Maternity Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new regional children\u2019s hospital project has faced protracted delays Health officials were concerned a contractor behind Belfast\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[34912,22305,105,4348,23524,211,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-219463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-garrett-hargan","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-mike-nesbitt","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114757148881106037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219463","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=219463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}