{"id":34941,"date":"2022-05-03T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34941"},"modified":"2022-05-03T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:06:24","slug":"where-have-our-gps-gone-shock-new-figures-show-just-one-doctor-for-every-2200-patients-as-nhs-staff-shortages-start-to-bite-and-even-routine-appointments-are-axed-by-more-than-a-third-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/where-have-our-gps-gone-shock-new-figures-show-just-one-doctor-for-every-2200-patients-as-nhs-staff-shortages-start-to-bite-and-even-routine-appointments-are-axed-by-more-than-a-third-of-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Where HAVE our GPs gone? Shock new figures show just one doctor for every 2,200 patients as NHS staff shortages start to bite&#8230; and even routine appointments are axed by more than a third of practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22398\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon.png 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GPs are being forced to care for 2,200 patients each because of\u00a0<a id=\"mol-b6d7a520-ca6b-11ec-b272-af6ca640ad0e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\">NHS<\/a> staff shortages.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10776545\/Shock-new-figures-just-one-doctor-2-200-patients-NHS-staff-shortages-start-bite.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>GPs are being forced to care for 2,200 patients each because of\u00a0NHS staff shortages.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34942,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions\/34942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}