{"id":1924,"date":"2022-06-28T23:32:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/28\/nhs-delays-avoidable-blindness-fears-over-eye-care-waits\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T23:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:32:01","slug":"nhs-delays-avoidable-blindness-fears-over-eye-care-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"NHS delays: Avoidable blindness fears over eye care waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Andrew Carruthers, from Hywel Dda University Health Board, responsible for Ms Williams and Mr Chandley&#8217;s care, said there had been &#8220;significant demand&#8221; in its macular degeneration service due to new referrals, the impact of Covid and the &#8220;resulting disruption of services and staffing&#8221; which has led to a &#8220;backlog of demand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-61965909?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Andrew Carruthers, from Hywel Dda University Health Board, responsible for Ms Williams and Mr Chandley&#8217;s care, said there had been &#8220;significant demand&#8221; in its macular degeneration service due to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}