{"id":75371,"date":"2025-05-19T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75371"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:57:50","slug":"health-tourists-rack-up-6million-nhs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/19\/health-tourists-rack-up-6million-nhs-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Health tourists rack up \u00a36million NHS bill"},"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\/AA1F0QYS.img?w=534&amp;h=301&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Health boards are losing out on vital cash due to the difficulties of identifying those not entitled to free NHS care\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foreign patients have racked up a &#8216;staggering&#8217; \u00a36m treatment bill in Scotland&#8217;s hospitals.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/health-tourists-rack-up-6million-nhs-bill\/ar-AA1F0ZNe?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=b112537ec50c44f58681d8772f2b4f8e&amp;ei=39\">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>Foreign patients have racked up a &#8216;staggering&#8217; \u00a36m treatment bill in Scotland&#8217;s hospitals.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75371","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\/oxygen-in-ambulance.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75371","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=75371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75372,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75371\/revisions\/75372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}