{"id":301,"date":"2022-04-06T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/home\/having-a-problem-before-your-operation\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:59:51","slug":"having-a-problem-before-your-operation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/royal-infirmary-of-edinburgh\/having-a-problem-before-your-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a problem before your operation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are suffering from any of the following in the week before surgery:<br>heavy cold or flu<br>tooth abscess<br>generally feeling unwell<br>Please phone the waiting list office using the number on your appointment letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you cannot keep your clinic appointment or you are unable to come for your operation, you must let us know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please phone using the number on your&nbsp;<strong>appointment letter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have this number then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you are having day surgery then you can find contact details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/royal-infirmary-of-edinburgh\/information-specific-to-the-type-of-surgery-that-you-are-having\/day-surgery\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"313\">Day Surgery page<\/a>.<\/li><li>If you are having gynaecological surgery then you can find contact details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/royal-infirmary-of-edinburgh\/information-specific-to-the-type-of-surgery-that-you-are-having\/gynaecological-surgery\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"309\">Gynaecological Surgery page<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise you can call the NHS Lothian switchboard on&nbsp;<strong>0131 242 1000<\/strong>&nbsp;who will be able to connect you to the correct department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are suffering from any of the following in the week before surgery:heavy cold or flutooth abscessgenerally feeling unwellPlease phone the waiting list office using the number on your appointment letter. If you cannot keep your clinic appointment or you are unable to come for your operation, you must let us know. Please phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":295,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"If you are suffering from any of the following in the week before surgery:heavy cold or flutooth abscessgenerally feeling unwellPlease phone the waiting list office using the number on your appointment letter. If you cannot keep your clinic appointment or you are unable to come for your operation, you must let us know. Please phone","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions\/434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/preparingforsurgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}