{"id":511,"date":"2009-04-01T20:28:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:09:39","slug":"coeliac-disease-diagnosis-and-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/coeliac-disease-diagnosis-and-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coeliac disease, diagnosis and petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/signature.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" title=\"signature\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" hspace=\"10px\" align=\"right\"\/>If you&#8217;re a UK citizen, and are concerned about those people who have undiagnosed coeliac disease, then please consider signing the petition now available via the 10 Downing Street site.<\/p>\n<p>It is asking &#8216;the Prime Minister to find the half million people in the UK at risk of serious damage to their health from undiagnosed coeliac disease by including a target for diagnosis in the Quality and Outcomes Framework of the GP contract&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You know what they say: you get what you measure. If doctors have a target to meet, then they might have testing for coeliac disease higher up on their agenda &#8230; it works for infant vaccinations!<\/p>\n<p>Signing the petition is easy. You do it online, here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.number10.gov.uk\/coeliacdisease\/\">http:\/\/petitions.number10.gov.uk\/coeliacdisease\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then they&#8217;ll send you an email to confirm that you are a real person; click the link in the email and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>Go on &#8211; and have a look at the other petitions online while you&#8217;re there. Interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a UK citizen, and are concerned about those people who have undiagnosed coeliac disease, then please consider signing the petition now available via the 10 Downing Street site. It is asking &#8216;the Prime Minister to find the half million people in the UK at risk of serious damage to their health from undiagnosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,1],"tags":[7,5,4,18,6,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-campaigns","7":"category-diagnosis","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"tag-avoid-gluten","10":"tag-celiac","11":"tag-coeliac","12":"tag-e-government","13":"tag-gluten-free","14":"tag-petitions","15":"entry","16":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}