{"id":356183,"date":"2025-08-19T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356183\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:03:12","slug":"ludlow-parents-baffled-by-long-trips-for-hospital-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356183\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludlow parents baffled by long trips for hospital checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another mum, Kay, said she changed jobs to work more flexibly because taking her 12-year-old daughter Matilda and 10-year-old son Milo to eye clinics in Shrewsbury became so time consuming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;They have to go every six months, both of them do. And the appointments only last 20 minutes, if that really,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it takes such a long time to get there, it&#8217;s an hour to get there and you have to allow for parking and it&#8217;s an hour to come back. It&#8217;s such a big chunk of the day and they&#8217;re missing time off school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matilda is frustrated too: &#8220;Well of course not everybody likes school but it always feels like sometimes I&#8217;m missing important things when I&#8217;m not at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like I missed a test once and I had to do that on one of the days when it was a &#8216;fun day&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milo added: &#8220;It annoys me because I could just go to Ludlow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another mum, Kay, said she changed jobs to work more flexibly because taking her 12-year-old daughter Matilda and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-356183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054156633064784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}