{"id":34488,"date":"2022-03-05T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34488"},"modified":"2022-03-05T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:55:22","slug":"millions-of-nhs-patients-are-prepared-to-go-into-debt-to-beat-waiting-lists-as-figures-reveal-85-are-considering-private-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/05\/millions-of-nhs-patients-are-prepared-to-go-into-debt-to-beat-waiting-lists-as-figures-reveal-85-are-considering-private-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of NHS patients are prepared to go into debt to beat waiting lists as figures reveal 85% are considering private healthcare"},"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-32109\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NHS-nurses-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NHS-nurses-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NHS-nurses-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NHS-nurses-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NHS-nurses.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"mol-58021a90-9b4e-11ec-9c8f-217b3501ebe3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\">NHS\u00a0<\/a> waiting lists are now so long that more than eight in ten patients are considering going private, a damning poll shows.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10575739\/Millions-NHS-patients-prepared-debt-beat-waiting-lists.html\">Read 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>NHS\u00a0 waiting lists are now so long that more than eight in ten patients are considering going private, a damning poll shows.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34488","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\/10\/NHS-nurses.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488","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=34488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34489,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions\/34489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}