{"id":79291,"date":"2025-09-06T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79291"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:35:03","slug":"error-leaves-55000-diabetes-patients-needing-new-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/06\/error-leaves-55000-diabetes-patients-needing-new-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Error leaves 55,000 diabetes patients needing new tests"},"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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/71e0\/live\/c9441e70-89a1-11f0-9a26-53a7b49d8dfd.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of hands as patient undergoes finger prick test administered by a member of hospital staff who is wearing white plastic gloves.  \" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Errors by machines used to diagnose diabetes mean at least 55,000 people in England will need further blood tests, a BBC investigation has discovered.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g7d3w7gdlo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>Errors by machines used to diagnose diabetes mean at least 55,000 people in England will need further blood tests, a BBC investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79291","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\/2020\/08\/Diabetes2.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79291","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=79291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79292,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79291\/revisions\/79292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}