{"id":3698,"date":"2022-02-28T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsfin.co.uk\/news\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:35:26","slug":"private-medical-insurance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/private-medical-insurance-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Private medical insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>COVID-19: What you need to know<\/h3>\n<h5>Rising NHS waiting lists alongside the relaxation of COVID restrictions could be driving the surging interest in private healthcare[1]. During the course of the pandemic, private hospitals have supported the NHS by providing their facilities to help the national effort to fight the virus.<\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Association of British Insurers, this meant that many non-urgent treatments for some private medical insurance customers were delayed. With the situation in the UK now stabilising, normal service has started to resume in many private facilities.<\/p>\n<p>People due urgent and time-critical support and care, such as cancer treatment, are being treated as a matter of priority.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst customers had access to urgent and time-critical care, a proportion of customer claims were deferred due to the surge in COVID-19 cases throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source data:<\/strong><br \/>\n[1] https:\/\/www.laingbuissonnews.com\/healthcare-markets-content\/nhs-waits-and-loosening-of-covid-rules-driving-interest-in-private-options\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19: What you need to know Rising NHS waiting lists alongside the relaxation of COVID restrictions could be driving the surging interest in private healthcare[1]. During the course of the pandemic, private hospitals have supported the NHS by providing their facilities to help the national effort to fight the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulyoungifa.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}