{"id":48152,"date":"2023-08-04T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48152"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T08:38:07","slug":"nhs-goes-private-to-tackle-covid-era-waiting-lists-independent-companies-will-be-asked-to-conduct-scans-and-tests-in-biggest-expansion-of-the-sector-since-the-blair-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/04\/nhs-goes-private-to-tackle-covid-era-waiting-lists-independent-companies-will-be-asked-to-conduct-scans-and-tests-in-biggest-expansion-of-the-sector-since-the-blair-era\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS &#8216;goes private&#8217; to tackle Covid-era waiting lists: Independent companies will be asked to conduct scans and tests in biggest expansion of the sector since the Blair era"},"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-47078\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NhS-75-300x216.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NhS-75-300x216.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NhS-75-360x259.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NhS-75.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Government is turning to private healthcare firms in a bid to cut\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-c41ca3f0-325e-11ee-abff-85e81528be9f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS<\/a><\/span> waiting lists, in what has been dubbed the biggest expansion of the sector\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12371409\/NHS-goes-private-tackle-Covid-era-waiting-lists-Independent-companies-asked-conduct-scans-tests-biggest-expansion-sector-Blair-era.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>The\u00a0Government is turning to private healthcare firms in a bid to cut\u00a0NHS waiting lists, in what has been dubbed the biggest expansion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48152","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\/07\/NhS-75.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48152","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=48152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48153,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48152\/revisions\/48153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}