{"id":69973,"date":"2025-01-06T22:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69973"},"modified":"2025-01-06T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:30:58","slug":"nhs-test-and-scan-hubs-to-open-12-hours-a-day-and-450000-patients-to-be-seen-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/nhs-test-and-scan-hubs-to-open-12-hours-a-day-and-450000-patients-to-be-seen-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS test and scan hubs to open 12 hours a day and 450,000 patients to be seen faster"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1x0gVy.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Government is facing criticism for focusing on the elective treatment backlog, which includes non-emergency operations such as knee and hip surgery, rather than the significant pressure on A&amp;E departments. Some hospitals, like the Royal Cornwall Hospital, have declared critical incidents and brought back mask wearing due to winter pressures (Photo: Hugh Hastings\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NHS trusts will be told they must see patients for routine scans and tests 12 hours a day, seven days a week under government plans to clear the waiting list backlog.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/public-safety-and-emergencies\/health-and-safety-alerts\/nhs-test-and-scan-hubs-to-open-12-hours-a-day-and-450-000-patients-to-be-seen-faster\/ar-AA1x0eL3?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">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>NHS trusts will be told they must see patients for routine scans and tests 12 hours a day, seven days a week&#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-69973","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\/69973","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=69973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69974,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973\/revisions\/69974"}],"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=69973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}