{"id":568,"date":"2023-01-20T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/?page_id=568"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:43:50","slug":"patients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>You and your peace of mind are important to us<\/strong>, so think carefully about what you want to tell the doctor or any other healthcare professional you are seeing. You might find it helpful to write your thoughts down on paper and bring your notes with you. You may also find it helpful to bring someone with you to take notes or help you remember what you want to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keeping Your Appointment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you cannot keep your appointment, or have been given one that is unsuitable, please change it by phoning the number on your appointment letter. Your call will give someone else the chance to be seen and will help us keep waiting times to a minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When Preparing for Your Appointment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your health and your peace of mind are important to us,<\/strong>&nbsp;so it\u2019s important to think carefully about what you should tell your doctor or any other healthcare professional you are seeing. You might find it helpful to write your thoughts down on paper and bring your notes with you. You may also find it helpful to bring someone with you to take notes or help you remember what you want to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get Up, Get Dressed, Get Moving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to help people recover and get home quicker from hospital and a great way to do this is by getting out of your pyjamas, night dress or hospital gown and getting out of bed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-02c18585-a779-4c35-a22c-070dd884549d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/02\/Get-Up-Get-Dressed-Get-Moving.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get Up Get Dressed Get Moving<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/02\/Get-Up-Get-Dressed-Get-Moving.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-02c18585-a779-4c35-a22c-070dd884549d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You and your peace of mind are important to us, so think carefully about what you want to tell the doctor or any other healthcare professional you are seeing. You might find it helpful to write your thoughts down on paper and bring your notes with you. You may also find it helpful to bring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"st3vi3b0y","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/blog\/author\/st3vi3b0y\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"You and your peace of mind are important to us, so think carefully about what you want to tell the doctor or any other healthcare professional you are seeing. You might find it helpful to write your thoughts down on paper and bring your notes with you. You may also find it helpful to bring","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/goingtohospital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}