{"id":84480,"date":"2026-02-03T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84480"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:28:41","slug":"nhs-to-cover-petrol-costs-parking-fees-and-train-fares-for-families-of-children-fighting-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/03\/nhs-to-cover-petrol-costs-parking-fees-and-train-fares-for-families-of-children-fighting-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS to cover petrol costs, parking fees and train fares for families of children fighting cancer"},"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\/AA1Vz49T.img?w=534&amp;h=645&amp;m=6&amp;x=230&amp;y=102&amp;s=123&amp;d=123\" alt=\"Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced that families will have the cost of travel to hospitals covered by the government\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Families of young\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;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">cancer<\/a>\u00a0patients who have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/petrol\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">petrol<\/a> costs, train fares and parking fees will now receive money towards travel expenses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-to-cover-petrol-costs-parking-fees-and-train-fares-for-families-of-children-fighting-cancer\/ar-AA1Vz1v5?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2e779d6547234e02fe32a6a5b4d0eaa5&amp;ei=43\">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>Families of young\u00a0cancer\u00a0patients who have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket on\u00a0petrol costs, train fares and parking fees will now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84480","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\/cancer-in-kids2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84480","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=84480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84481,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84480\/revisions\/84481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}