{"id":619,"date":"2009-05-04T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2009-05-04T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:16:00","slug":"exclusive-nhs-hospital-waiting-times-are-the-lowest-since-records-began-mirror-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: NHS hospital waiting times are the lowest since records began &#8211; mirror.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2009\/03\/30\/exclusive-nhs-hospital-waiting-times-are-the-lowest-since-records-began-115875-21239011\/\">Exclusive: NHS hospital waiting times are the lowest since records began &#8211; mirror.co.uk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hospital waiting times are the lowest since records began, Health Secretary Alan Johnson will say today as he rounds on critics of the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Johnson aims to hit back at the doom and gloom-mongers by showing how the nation&#8217;s health service has been transformed for the better in the 12 years since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will highlight figures showing delays for treatment have fallen in many areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Some of the numbers are quite impressive. I don&#8217;t think these numbers are significantly different than US (and by that, I mean these are not intolerable waits by most standards). And remember, they hae health care for their entire population, not just those who can afford it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: NHS hospital waiting times are the lowest since records began &#8211; mirror.co.uk: &#8220;Hospital waiting times are the lowest since records began, Health Secretary Alan Johnson will say today as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exclusive: NHS hospital waiting times are the lowest since records began &#8211; mirror.co.uk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-nhs","category-waiting-times"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}