{"id":81337,"date":"2025-11-17T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81337"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:54:47","slug":"hospital-blood-takers-strike-for-236-days-in-longest-walkout-in-nhs-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/17\/hospital-blood-takers-strike-for-236-days-in-longest-walkout-in-nhs-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital blood-takers strike for 236 days in &#8216;longest walkout in NHS history&#8217;"},"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=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60970\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/taking-blood-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/taking-blood-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/taking-blood-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/taking-blood.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specialist health workers who take patients\u2019 blood have been striking for 236 consecutive days in what their union claim is the longest walkout in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-ba48b7b0-c316-11f0-a108-df51ef943126\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">NHS<\/a><\/span> history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15296265\/Hospital-blood-takers-strike-236-days-longest-NHS.html\">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>Specialist health workers who take patients\u2019 blood have been striking for 236 consecutive days in what their union claim is the longest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81337","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\/2023\/12\/drawing-blood.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81337","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=81337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81338,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81337\/revisions\/81338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}