{"id":724,"date":"2017-04-01T09:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=724"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:25:00","slug":"in-hospital-just-ask-the-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"In Hospital? Just Ask the Priest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of the Data Protection Act means that Hospital Chaplains can&#8217;t know you or your loved ones are in hospital unless you tell them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyone being admitted to hospital should contact their local priest, preferably before admission, if they would like to\u00a0receive the Sacrament of the Sick.<\/p>\n<p>Every hospital has a system for contacting the RC Chaplain urgently in emergencies, when the patient or family ask the nursing staff to summon him.<\/p>\n<p>However, because of the implementation of the Data Protection Act,\u00a0the Catholic Chaplain will not know you or your loved ones are in hospital unless you ask for him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just ask the priest!<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-725\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NHS-GGC-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NHS-GGC-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NHS-GGC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NHS-GGC-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NHS-GGC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of the Data Protection Act means that Hospital Chaplains can&#8217;t know you or your loved ones are in hospital unless you tell them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-724","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parish-news","category-diocesan-news","category-catholic-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-bG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NHS-GGC.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}