{"id":18185,"date":"2017-12-11T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18185"},"modified":"2017-12-13T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:08:19","slug":"appeal-for-staff-to-work-extra-shifts-at-uhw-because-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/appeal-for-staff-to-work-extra-shifts-at-uhw-because-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for staff to work extra shifts at UHW because of snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Healthcare workers at University Hospital of Wales are being asked to come in and work extra shifts because of the bad weather.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook post was sent out yesterday appealing for help as some staff had been affected by the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff and Vale University Health Board say it was simply a precautionary measure, and that the hospital was fully staffed.<\/p>\n<p>But it has led to calls for more to be done to help hospital workers at this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Councillor for Heath and Birchgrove Fenella Bowden, says she hopes extra provisions will be put in place for the rest of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Bowden says she&#8217;s worried that bad weather will lead to a lack of staff in hospitals over the next few months:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It isn&#8217;t just UHW that are struggling with getting staff in, and once you can&#8217;t get sufficient amounts of staff into work, operations get cancelled, clinics get cancelled, we have a build up in A&amp;E. Inevitably when people are out and about in icy and snowy conditions there are more accidents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She thinks more public transport in Cardiff North could also help those who have problems getting to work over the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bad weather, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said hospitals services were not affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare workers at University Hospital of Wales are being asked to come in and work extra shifts because of the bad weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[838,1242,15,762,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18257,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions\/18257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}