{"id":70767,"date":"2025-01-20T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70767"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:21:21","slug":"record-number-of-patients-going-private-to-avoid-long-nhs-wait-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/20\/record-number-of-patients-going-private-to-avoid-long-nhs-wait-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of patients going private to avoid long NHS wait lists"},"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\/AA1xtucF.img?w=634&amp;h=423&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A luxury private hospital room (stock image).\u00a0The Daily Mail can reveal thousands felt they had \u2018no choice\u2019 but to pay for care just weeks after Prime Minister announced how the private sector will be instrumental in reforming NHS elective care\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Record numbers of patients are paying for private\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" 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}\">cancer<\/a>\u00a0treatment and heart surgery rather than risking waiting for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" 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> care.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/record-number-of-patients-going-private-to-avoid-long-nhs-wait-lists\/ar-AA1xtzjX?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=4c655ba743cb40669bcbe9466b23f56d&amp;ei=54\">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>Record numbers of patients are paying for private\u00a0cancer\u00a0treatment and heart surgery rather than risking waiting for\u00a0NHS care.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70767","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\/12\/waiting-list.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767","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=70767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70768,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions\/70768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}