{"id":1120,"date":"2026-09-27T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:09:31","slug":"information-for-patients-attending-private-hospitals-and-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/information-for-patients-attending-private-hospitals-and-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS ATTENDING PRIVATE HOSPITALS AND CLINICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to long waiting times for investigations, specialist appointments and operations within the NHS, some people are deciding to attend private hospitals and clinics, locally and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>If you are thinking about using a private health provider, either by self-funding or private health insurance, we strongly advise you to first consider the information held within this patient information leaflet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Information-for-Patients-Attending-Private-Hospitals-and-Clinics.pdf\">Leaflet: Information for Patients Attending Private Hospitals and Clinics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to long waiting times for investigations, specialist appointments and operations within the NHS, some people are deciding to attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgeryweb-scot.org.uk\/55291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}