{"id":933,"date":"2022-01-10T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-louise-hyde-in-pulse-private-providers-making-the-most-of-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:32:18","slug":"dauks-dr-louise-hyde-in-pulse-private-providers-making-the-most-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-louise-hyde-in-pulse-private-providers-making-the-most-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s Dr Louise Hyde in Pulse: &#8220;Private Providers making the most of the pandemic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hush-naidoo-yo01Z-9HQAw-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5515\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors Association UK representative Dr Louise Hyde, a GP in Tywyn, Wales, says her rural patient group is \u2018generally not very demanding or well off\u2019, but despite this she is seeing \u2018way, way more\u2019 of them choosing to pay for care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018I\u2019ve recently had an elderly lady say she\u2019s too old to wait two years for her cataract op, so she\u2019s going private. An elderly man made the same decision about his hip replacement,\u2019 she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Hyde adds: \u2018Urology waiting lists are really bad here and I\u2019ve had one patient with bladder cancer and another with prostate getting tests and outpatient appointments done privately self-paid, although I think both then returned to the NHS for treatment.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/analysis\/cover-feature\/private-providers-making-the-most-of-the-pandemic\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors Association UK representative Dr Louise Hyde, a GP in Tywyn, Wales, says her rural patient group is \u2018generally not very demanding or well off\u2019,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[38,519,33,34,153,42],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-dr-louise-hyde","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-pulse","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}