{"id":366358,"date":"2025-08-23T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366358\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:12:18","slug":"x-rays-ni-health-trust-investigating-after-appointment-letter-blunder-results-in-raft-of-no-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366358\/","title":{"rendered":"X-rays: NI health trust investigating after appointment letter blunder\u00a0results in raft of no-shows"},"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\">Northern Trust patients affected were from similar geographic area\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Whiteabbey Hospital, Co Antrim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0a3ca4d0-69ca-482c-b958-68ca5eaddbda.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)\">Whiteabbey Hospital, Co Antrim<\/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)\">An NI health trust has said it is investigating the cause of an appointment letter blunder that led to several missed appointments in its X-ray department last week.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/tag\/health-trusts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Trust<\/a> has said a postal error may be responsible for several patients failing to receive a letter inviting them to an appointment, resulting in several non-attendances at Whiteabbey Hospital over two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Trust patients affected were from similar geographic area Whiteabbey Hospital, Co Antrim An NI health trust has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1211,51,34912,17037,1300,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-department-of-health","11":"tag-health-trusts","12":"tag-liam-tunney","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076133291036495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366358","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=366358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}