{"id":675358,"date":"2026-11-05T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675358\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:14:09","slug":"the-nhs-is-relying-more-on-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675358\/","title":{"rendered":"The NHS is relying more on charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">A major shift came with the Health Services Act 1980, which encouraged a more active fundraising culture. From then on, NHS charities expanded significantly and became increasingly professionalised. By the 1990s and beyond, they were raising substantial sums for equipment, buildings, research, and the likes of play areas in children&#8217;s wards and well-equipped staff rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major shift came with the Health Services Act 1980, which encouraged a more active fundraising culture. From&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-675358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}