{"id":31858,"date":"2021-09-28T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31858"},"modified":"2021-09-28T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:04:34","slug":"the-system-is-broken-sick-patients-forced-to-sit-for-hours-outside-ae-under-blankets-and-heat-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/the-system-is-broken-sick-patients-forced-to-sit-for-hours-outside-ae-under-blankets-and-heat-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The system is broken\u2019: Sick patients forced to sit for hours outside A&#038;E under blankets and heat lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29447\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-770x352.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-1024x468.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-500x229.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-360x165.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sick patients have been forced to wait outside a hospital\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"92\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:92,&quot;p&quot;:48,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:34}\">A&amp;E<\/a> department on chairs and wrapped only in blankets while being treated by nurses in shock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/the-system-is-broken-sick-patients-forced-to-sit-for-hours-outside-a-e-under-blankets-and-heat-lamps\/ar-AAOUfoL?ocid=msedgntp\">Read\u00a0 More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sick patients have been forced to wait outside a hospital\u00a0A&amp;E department on chairs and wrapped only in blankets while being treated by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31859,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858\/revisions\/31859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}