{"id":41289,"date":"2023-01-23T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=41289"},"modified":"2023-01-23T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:38:09","slug":"harness-the-power-of-pharmacies-so-chemists-can-treat-minor-illnesses-to-tackle-backlogs-mps-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/23\/harness-the-power-of-pharmacies-so-chemists-can-treat-minor-illnesses-to-tackle-backlogs-mps-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Harness the power of pharmacies so chemists can treat minor illnesses to tackle backlogs, MPs say"},"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-41136\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Lloyds-Pharmacy-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Lloyds-Pharmacy-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Lloyds-Pharmacy.jpeg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">P<\/span>harmacists could treat patients with minor illnesses for half the price the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a> is paying GPs to do the same work, a report by MPs reveals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/harness-the-power-of-pharmacies-so-chemists-can-treat-minor-illnesses-to-tackle-backlogs-mps-say\/ar-AA16Dat0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=5df0e187b6144d28be04133e4172fb13\">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>Pharmacists could treat patients with minor illnesses for half the price the\u00a0NHS is paying GPs to do the same work, a report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41289","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\/2022\/12\/pharmacist-checking-BP.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289","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=41289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41290,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions\/41290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}