{"id":374042,"date":"2025-08-26T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:28:10","slug":"urgent-update-amid-hairmyres-hospital-near-glasgow-power-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374042\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent update amid Hairmyres Hospital near Glasgow power cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      NHS Lanarkshire confirmed that the incident\u00a0affected University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride and that power has been restored.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      The health board has apologised to\u00a0patients and the public over the disruption and given an update to those seeking care.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/25414895.hairmyres-hospital-near-glasgow-darkness-amid-power-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hairmyres Hospital near Glasgow in darkness amid power cut\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25415342.warning-busy-road-closed-almost-week-due-emergency\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warning as busy road to be closed for almost a week due to &#8217;emergency&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25415492.queues-continue-one-week-brand-new-glasgow-restaurant-ahead-opening\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queues continue one week on for brand-new Glasgow\u00a0restaurant ahead of opening<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Louise Long, Chief Executive of NHS Lanarkshire, said: &#8220;Main power was restored to University Hospital Hairmyres earlier today. We have continued to provide emergency care at the hospital throughout the day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We would like to apologise to all patients whose planned procedures and appointments are being disrupted today and tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;All affected patients are being contacted, and postponed care will be rescheduled as soon as possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Additional work is continuing to improve the resilience of the power supply to allow all services to return to normal at the hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Thank you to our staff for their resilience and professionalism in dealing with the situation.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>\n    Main power was restored to University Hospital Hairmyres earlier today. Emergency care has continued throughout.<br \/>We apologise to all patients whose care is being disrupted today and tomorrow. This will be rescheduled ASAP. Work is ongoing to improve the hospital power supply.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHS Lanarkshire (@NHSLanarkshire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHSLanarkshire\/status\/1960017293033029982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  In a statement posted to social media, NHS Lanarkshire echoed their chief&#8217;s remarks, they said: &#8220;Main power was restored to University Hospital Hairmyres earlier today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Emergency care has continued throughout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We apologise to all patients whose care is being disrupted today and tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This will be rescheduled ASAP. Work is ongoing to improve the hospital power supply.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS Lanarkshire confirmed that the incident\u00a0affected University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride and that power has been restored.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-374042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115093183115759671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374042","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=374042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}