{"id":44162,"date":"2023-03-28T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=44162"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:12:47","slug":"we-are-losing-our-sight-because-we-are-stuck-in-the-nhs-backlog-terrified-andrew-and-pam-fear-they-could-go-blind-because-they-are-among-628000-people-on-eye-treatment-waiting-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/28\/we-are-losing-our-sight-because-we-are-stuck-in-the-nhs-backlog-terrified-andrew-and-pam-fear-they-could-go-blind-because-they-are-among-628000-people-on-eye-treatment-waiting-list\/","title":{"rendered":"We are losing our sight because we are stuck in the NHS backlog: &#8216;Terrified&#8217; Andrew and Pam fear they could go blind because they are among 628,000 people on eye-treatment waiting list"},"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-44163\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery-770x514.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Andrew Battye was diagnosed with an eye disease that can cause progressive vision loss within days, he was told he\u2019d be fast-tracked into treatment that would halt its progress. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11907861\/Eye-patients-slowly-losing-sight-stuck-NHS-backlog.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>When Andrew Battye was diagnosed with an eye disease that can cause progressive vision loss within days, he was told he\u2019d be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44162","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\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44162","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=44162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44164,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44162\/revisions\/44164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}