{"id":68860,"date":"2024-12-20T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=68860"},"modified":"2024-12-20T00:08:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T00:08:40","slug":"hospitals-write-off-112m-in-foreign-patient-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/20\/hospitals-write-off-112m-in-foreign-patient-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals write off \u00a3112m in foreign patient bills"},"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><section id=\"fl-layout-primary-container\" class=\"fl-layout-container\" aria-label=\"primary visualisation container\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"fl-layout-footer-container\" class=\"fl-layout-container\">\n<div id=\"fl-layout-footer\" class=\"fl-layout-inner\">\n<footer class=\"flourish-footer\">\n<div id=\"flourish-footer-text\" class=\"flourish-footer-text\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SEI_33541473.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" alt=\"WARRINGTON, UK - MARCH 6, 2016: View of the NHS (National Health Service) logo at the Springfields Medical Centre in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire.; Shutterstock ID 393927661\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">London hospitals have written off more than \u00a3112m in unpaid treatment bills from overseas patients between 2018 and 2023, according to figures obtained by the BBC.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c77j1x0n54po\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>London hospitals have written off more than \u00a3112m in unpaid treatment bills from overseas patients between 2018 and 2023, according to figures&#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-68860","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\/68860","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=68860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68861,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68860\/revisions\/68861"}],"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=68860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}