{"id":49761,"date":"2023-09-16T10:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T10:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=49761"},"modified":"2023-09-16T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T10:47:34","slug":"hundreds-of-desperate-cancer-patients-are-paying-for-their-own-chemotherapy-to-avoid-lengthy-nhs-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/16\/hundreds-of-desperate-cancer-patients-are-paying-for-their-own-chemotherapy-to-avoid-lengthy-nhs-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of desperate cancer patients are paying for their own chemotherapy to avoid lengthy NHS waits"},"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-31810\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">cancer<\/a>\u00a0sufferers in Scotland have turned to private hospitals for life-saving chemotherapy in a bid to avoid lengthy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a> waiting lists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/hundreds-of-desperate-cancer-patients-are-paying-for-their-own-chemotherapy-to-avoid-lengthy-nhs-waits\/ar-AA1gNi2s?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=3bf6a163535a4916b21d6ba2918bd078&amp;ei=19\">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>Hundreds of\u00a0cancer\u00a0sufferers in Scotland have turned to private hospitals for life-saving chemotherapy in a bid to avoid lengthy\u00a0NHS waiting lists. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49761","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\/09\/Chemo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761","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=49761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49762,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions\/49762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}