{"id":72844,"date":"2025-03-03T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72844"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:05:45","slug":"nhs-patients-face-going-blind-due-to-treatment-delays-for-sight-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/nhs-patients-face-going-blind-due-to-treatment-delays-for-sight-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS patients face going blind due to treatment delays for sight conditions"},"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\/AA1A6sec.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Experts warned of treatment delays due to the rise in fees paid to independent medics by the NHS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NHS patients with complex\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/eye-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">eye conditions\u00a0<\/a>risk losing their sight as clinicians prioritise simpler and better-paid procedures, it is claimed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-patients-face-going-blind-due-to-treatment-delays-for-sight-conditions\/ar-AA1A6C1U?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=b761c094871e4c3bc94d741af3c0e818&amp;ei=71\">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 patients with complex\u00a0eye conditions\u00a0risk losing their sight as clinicians prioritise simpler and better-paid procedures, it is claimed. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72844","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\/2025\/03\/eye-issues.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72844","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=72844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72846,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72844\/revisions\/72846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}