{"id":69821,"date":"2025-01-03T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69821"},"modified":"2025-01-03T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T20:45:48","slug":"sweeping-reforms-to-gp-and-nhs-services-set-to-slash-waiting-lists-in-half-and-its-starting-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/sweeping-reforms-to-gp-and-nhs-services-set-to-slash-waiting-lists-in-half-and-its-starting-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping reforms to GP and NHS services set to slash waiting lists in half&#8230; and it&#8217;s starting on MONDAY"},"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-29447\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-770x352.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-1024x468.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-500x229.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs-360x165.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GPs will be told to refer patients directly for scans and treatment in a bid to speed up care and halve NHS waiting lists, MailOnline can reveal.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14247809\/Sweeping-reforms-GP-NHS-services-set-slash-waiting-lists-half-starting-MONDAY.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>GPs will be told to refer patients directly for scans and treatment in a bid to speed up care and halve NHS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69821","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\/09\/GP-with-patient.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69821","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=69821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69822,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69821\/revisions\/69822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}