{"id":44618,"date":"2023-04-07T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=44618"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:24:07","slug":"government-accused-of-not-getting-to-grips-with-the-crisis-as-six-million-people-a-month-give-up-trying-to-get-a-gp-appointment-due-to-wait-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/07\/government-accused-of-not-getting-to-grips-with-the-crisis-as-six-million-people-a-month-give-up-trying-to-get-a-gp-appointment-due-to-wait-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Government accused of &#8216;not getting to grips with the crisis&#8217; as six million people a month give up trying to get a GP appointment due to wait times"},"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-41661\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nhs-app-300x172.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nhs-app-300x172.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nhs-app-360x206.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nhs-app.jpeg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost six million people a month are giving up trying to see a GP due to long waits for an appointment, figures reveal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11947879\/Government-accused-not-getting-grips-crisis-six-million-month-GP-visit.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>Almost six million people a month are giving up trying to see a GP due to long waits for an appointment, figures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44618","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\/waiting-list.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618","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=44618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44619,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618\/revisions\/44619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}