{"id":230061,"date":"2025-07-01T19:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230061\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:19:14","slug":"nothing-short-of-an-insult-campaign-group-calls-on-health-minister-to-intervene-in-swah-surgery-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230061\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing short of an insult\u2019: Campaign group calls on Health Minister to intervene in SWAH surgery row"},"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\">The Western Trust are to this week discuss permanently removing the service\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen and inset Health Minister Mike Nesbitt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/de72724b-a656-4927-9b40-1b68b02d8638.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)\">South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen and inset Health Minister Mike Nesbitt<\/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)\">The Minister for Health should intervene if an NI health trust opts to make permanent the temporary suspension of emergency general surgery at a Co Fermanagh hospital, a campaign group 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)\">The service has been suspended at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) since December 2022 after concerns were raised over staffing levels at the Enniskillen site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Trust are to this week discuss permanently removing the service South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[90484,34912,1817,1248,105,17037,4348,1300,23524,1250,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-230061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-altnagelvin-area-hospital","9":"tag-department-of-health","10":"tag-derry-news","11":"tag-fermanagh-news","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-trusts","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-liam-tunney","16":"tag-mike-nesbitt","17":"tag-south-west-acute-hospital","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114779597262452522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230061","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=230061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}