If you or a loved one are admitted to hospital, remember that the Church and other Christian bodies work hard with\u00a0NHS hospital trusts to provide a good chaplaincy service\u00a0in NHS hospitals, and the work done by chaplaincy\u00a0teams is regulated by contract. There are very good\u00a0teams at the hospitals in London to which people are\u00a0admitted, including Catholic priests and deacons (the\u00a0new lead chaplain of the Kings Trust which runs the\u00a0hospital at Farnborough is a Catholic deacon).<\/p>\n
This means that it is the responsibility of these teams to\u00a0see you and minister to you when you go into hospital \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s their job. So when you are admitted you should ask\u00a0the ward or the hospital switchboard to contact the RC\u00a0chaplain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If it is urgent he is on call, 24 hours a day (one of our clergy provides this cover one night a week at the\u00a0PRUH). While it is helpful if you let the clergy here know,\u00a0the most important thing is to let the chaplaincy team\u00a0know at the hospital.\u00a0Switchboard numbers are: PRUH<\/strong> – 01689 863 000,\u00a0KINGS<\/strong> – 020 3299 9000,\u00a0 LEWISHAM<\/strong> – 020 3228 6000<\/p>\n Ask for the Chaplaincy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you or a loved one are admitted to hospital, remember that the Church and other Christian bodies work hard with\u00a0NHS hospital trusts to provide a good chaplaincy service\u00a0in NHS hospitals, and the work done by chaplaincy\u00a0teams is regulated by contract. There are very good\u00a0teams at the hospitals in London to which people are\u00a0admitted, including Catholic priests and deacons (the\u00a0new lead chaplain of the Kings Trust which runs the\u00a0hospital at Farnborough is a Catholic deacon). This means that it is the responsibility of these teams to\u00a0see you and minister to you when you go into hospital \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s their job. So when you are admitted you should ask\u00a0the ward or the hospital switchboard to contact the RC\u00a0chaplain. If it is urgent he is on call, 24 hours a day (one of our clergy provides this cover one night a week at the\u00a0PRUH). While it is helpful if you let the clergy here know,\u00a0the most important thing is to let the chaplaincy team\u00a0know at the hospital.\u00a0Switchboard numbers are: PRUH – 01689 863 000,\u00a0KINGS – 020 3299 9000,\u00a0 LEWISHAM – 020 3228 6000 Ask for the Chaplaincy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}