{"id":655271,"date":"2026-05-07T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:07:09","slug":"taken-a-while-nrl-great-on-the-implementation-of-important-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655271\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Taken a while&#8217; &#8211; NRL Great on the implementation of important health service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Mark \u2018Spudd\u2019 Carroll has praised the implementation of a past player health screening for retired NRL players.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Adam Hawse on Sports Today, the NRL great says it\u2019s great to see it implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m stoked, it\u2019s taken a while \u2026 the ARLC will now cover any costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The screening also includes those who played for the NRLW, Jillaroos, and Kangaroos.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to more highlights from Sports Today below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image: Matt King\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark \u2018Spudd\u2019 Carroll has praised the implementation of a past player health screening for retired NRL players. Speaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-655271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}