{"id":42223,"date":"2023-02-15T10:29:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=42223"},"modified":"2023-02-15T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:29:16","slug":"nhs-strikes-force-thousands-to-wait-18-months-for-surgery-as-flagship-target-to-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/nhs-strikes-force-thousands-to-wait-18-months-for-surgery-as-flagship-target-to-be-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS strikes force thousands to wait 18 months for surgery as flagship target to be missed"},"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-38216\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Nurses-strike-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Nurses-strike-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Nurses-strike.jpeg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>housands of patients are being forced to\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/nhs-waiting-list-nurses-strike-england-b2277927.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">wait more than 18 months for treatments<\/a>\u00a0such as knee and brain surgery as the health service is set to miss its flagship target because of\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-strikes-nurses-emergency-cancer-b2280640.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS strikes<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-strikes-force-thousands-to-wait-18-months-for-surgery-as-flagship-target-to-be-missed\/ar-AA17tetK?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=20553b96c6614e129c89c9df4f13d2eb\">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>Thousands of patients are being forced to\u00a0wait more than 18 months for treatments\u00a0such as knee and brain surgery as the health service&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42223","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\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42223","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=42223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42224,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42223\/revisions\/42224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}