{"id":39965,"date":"2022-12-17T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=39965"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:25:24","slug":"patients-forced-to-wait-months-for-vital-nhs-diagnostic-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/17\/patients-forced-to-wait-months-for-vital-nhs-diagnostic-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients forced to wait months for vital NHS diagnostic tests"},"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-39487\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/waiting-list-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/waiting-list-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/waiting-list-360x180.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/waiting-list.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Medical teams have warned that some diagnostic services in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/nhs\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">NHS<\/a> are \u201cclose to failure\u201d, with more than 184,000 patients in England waiting three months or longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/dec\/17\/patients-forced-to-wait-months-for-vital-nhs-diagnostic-tests\">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>Medical teams have warned that some diagnostic services in the\u00a0NHS are \u201cclose to failure\u201d, with more than 184,000 patients in England waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39965","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\/2020\/08\/MRI.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965","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=39965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39966,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39965\/revisions\/39966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}