{"id":2000,"date":"2023-05-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2023-05-17T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:00:00","slug":"masks-aff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/masks-aff\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks aff!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m sure a lot of you will pleased to hear that masks are no longer mandatory in the majority of Scottish health care settings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will help aid communication and reduce waste&#8230; but we totally understand if some people are still worried about catching COVID when coming to see us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would prefer to wear a mask during a consultation, that is perfectly fine. If you would like the clinician who is seeing you to wear one as well, that is not a problem either &#8211; just ask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are coming in with a respiratory illness (any kind of cough \/ cold \/ sore throat for example) it might be a good idea to wear a mask when you come anyway. This would be a helpful courtesy to other patient&#8217;s in the waiting room and the clinicians who will be seeing you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure a lot of you will pleased to hear that masks are no longer mandatory in the majority of Scottish health care settings. This will help aid communication and reduce waste&#8230; but we totally understand if some people are still worried about catching COVID when coming to see us. If you would prefer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}