{"id":88525,"date":"2026-05-01T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88525"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:33:07","slug":"marthas-rule-may-have-saved-more-than-500-lives-in-england-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/01\/marthas-rule-may-have-saved-more-than-500-lives-in-england-since-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha\u2019s rule may have saved more than 500 lives in England since 2024"},"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\/AA228rLd.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=130&amp;y=249&amp;s=459&amp;d=459\" alt=\"Martha Mills died aged 13 in 2021 after her family\u2019s concerns that she was deteriorating went unheeded by staff. Photograph: Mills\/Laity family photograph\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 500 people have received potentially life-saving care thanks to Martha\u2019s rule, which gives hospital patients the right to seek a second opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/martha-s-rule-may-have-saved-more-than-500-lives-in-england-since-2024\/ar-AA227XxW?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f442fe0052471a9abf8817ba5f85f7&amp;ei=42\">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>More than 500 people have received potentially life-saving care thanks to Martha\u2019s rule, which gives hospital patients the right to seek a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88525","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\/09\/Marthas-rule.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88525","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=88525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88526,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88525\/revisions\/88526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}