{"id":91898,"date":"2026-07-15T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91898"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:08:36","slug":"nhs-eye-patients-risk-going-blind-as-waiting-lists-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/nhs-eye-patients-risk-going-blind-as-waiting-lists-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS eye patients risk going blind as waiting lists grow"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38982\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-360x233.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eye patients are at risk of going blind on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/nhs-waiting-lists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-ylk=\"\" data-rapid_p=\"2\" data-v9y=\"1\">NHS waiting lists<\/a>, according to a report being presented to MPs on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/nhs-eye-patients-risk-going-060000000.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>Eye patients are at risk of going blind on\u00a0NHS waiting lists, according to a report being presented to MPs on Wednesday. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Eye-surgery.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91898","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=91898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91899,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91898\/revisions\/91899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}