{"id":310416,"date":"2025-08-01T22:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:54:26","slug":"crewkerne-community-hospitals-beds-must-not-be-cut-protesters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310416\/","title":{"rendered":"Crewkerne Community hospital&#8217;s beds must not be cut, protesters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at Crewkerne have said they have already been told about redeployment options and offered shifts shadowing roles at other hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michelle Purchase, who has worked at the hospital for 16 years, said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t close these beds, we can&#8217;t lose them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The patients need these beds and so do the acute hospitals to offload into these community beds. This must not happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandy, who has been an inpatient at Crewkerne for four weeks, said she had received &#8220;wonderful care&#8221; relatively close to home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described those caring for her as &#8220;angels in nurses uniforms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, the trust is also in the early stages of a consultation on reducing beds at the community hospitals in Frome and Bridgwater, and at West Mendip Hospital in Glastonbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at Crewkerne have said they have already been told about redeployment options and offered shifts shadowing roles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955974410208402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310416","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=310416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}