{"id":69637,"date":"2025-01-01T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69637"},"modified":"2025-01-01T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T21:16:13","slug":"nhs-error-meant-hundreds-of-parents-did-not-know-childrens-sickle-cell-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/nhs-error-meant-hundreds-of-parents-did-not-know-childrens-sickle-cell-status\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS error meant hundreds of parents did not know children\u2019s sickle cell status"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1wN0Rl.img?w=768&h=461&m=6\" alt=\"Electron microscope image showing a blood cell altered by sickle cell disease. The NHS has apologised \u2018wholeheartedly\u2019 to affected families and has begun an investigation into the lapse. Photograph: AP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An error by the NHS led to hundreds of families with African-Caribbean heritage being left unaware of whether their babies may be carriers of certain genetic blood disorders, the Guardian has learned.\u00a0 Read More<\/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>An error by the NHS led to hundreds of families with African-Caribbean heritage being left unaware of whether their babies may be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/what-is-sickle-cell-anemia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637","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=69637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69638,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions\/69638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}