{"id":94993,"date":"2018-08-23T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=79dae874a2786124a42c9fe21cc98909"},"modified":"2018-08-23T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:06:49","slug":"news-story-matt-hancock-writes-to-health-and-care-system-on-no-deal-brexit-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94993","title":{"rendered":"News story: Matt Hancock writes to health and care system on no-deal Brexit planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In his letter to NHS staff, the Health and Social Care Secretary says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hospitals, GPs and community pharmacies in the UK do not need to take any steps to stockpile additional drugs or medical devices<\/li>\n<li>there is no need for clinicians to write longer NHS prescriptions<\/li>\n<li>medical staff should do all they can to make patients aware that they do not need to store additional NHS medicines or medical products at home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/letter-to-the-health-and-care-sector-preparations-for-a-potential-no-deal-brexit\">Read the full text of the letter from Matt Hancock to NHS staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hancock has told staff that patients will continue to have access to medicines, medical products and high-quality care in the unlikely event of a no-deal Brexit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}