{"id":40297,"date":"2022-12-27T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40297"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:17:09","slug":"agency-leeches-are-sucking-nhs-dry-middlemen-charge-half-a-billion-pounds-a-year-to-provide-locum-nurses-and-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/agency-leeches-are-sucking-nhs-dry-middlemen-charge-half-a-billion-pounds-a-year-to-provide-locum-nurses-and-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency leeches are sucking NHS dry: Middlemen charge HALF A BILLION pounds a year to provide locum nurses and doctors&#8230;"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38981\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Middlemen are charging the\u00a0<a id=\"mol-db23ba20-856b-11ed-b633-71b77cfb4c06\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a> half a billion pounds a year in fees for agency staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11575357\/Middlemen-charge-NHS-HALF-BILLION-pounds-year-fees-agency-staff.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>Middlemen are charging the\u00a0NHS half a billion pounds a year in fees for agency staff. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297","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=40297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40298,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297\/revisions\/40298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}