{"id":64262,"date":"2024-08-22T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=64262"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:34:48","slug":"health-secretary-urged-to-step-in-after-alzheimers-drug-blocked-for-use-on-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/health-secretary-urged-to-step-in-after-alzheimers-drug-blocked-for-use-on-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Secretary urged to step in after Alzheimer\u2019s drug blocked for use on NHS"},"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-64202\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Lequembi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Lequembi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Lequembi.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span>charity has urged the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/health-secretary\" 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}\">Health Secretary<\/a>\u00a0to step in after it emerged a drug that has been shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease may not be rolled out on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" 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<\/a> due to costs.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/health-secretary-urged-to-step-in-after-alzheimer-s-drug-blocked-for-use-on-nhs\/ar-AA1pfmOQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d911662e2cd7469da144b0e3b796d286&amp;ei=59\">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>A charity has urged the\u00a0Health Secretary\u00a0to step in after it emerged a drug that has been shown to slow the progression of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64262","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\/2024\/08\/Help-Streeting.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262","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=64262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64264,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262\/revisions\/64264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}