{"id":411439,"date":"2025-09-09T21:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:28:12","slug":"trust-will-make-decision-on-swah-surgery-not-me-health-minister-tells-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/411439\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trust will make decision on SWAH surgery, not me\u2019, Health Minister tells Assembly"},"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\">A debate on the future of the Co Fermanagh hospital took place at Stormont on Tuesday evening\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A busload of campaigners from Co Fermanagh made the journey to Stormont for the debate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/188dc583-1b46-4b5b-af4b-2b9ca85746b4.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)\">A busload of campaigners from Co Fermanagh made the journey to Stormont for the debate<\/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)\">Northern Ireland\u2019s Health Minister has told MLAs the final decision on the future of emergency general surgery at a Co Fermanagh hospital will rest with the Western Trust.<\/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 comments came during an adjournment debate on Tuesday evening over the future of services at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A debate on the future of the Co Fermanagh hospital took place at Stormont on Tuesday evening A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[34912,1248,105,17037,4348,1300,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-411439","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-fermanagh-news","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-trusts","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-liam-tunney","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115176466726345354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411439","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=411439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}