{"id":55258,"date":"2024-01-03T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=55258"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T10:04:10","slug":"ghost-patients-boost-gp-coffers-by-955-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/03\/ghost-patients-boost-gp-coffers-by-955-million\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ghost patients&#8217; boost GP coffers by \u00a3955 million"},"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-34895\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GP-empty-waiting-room-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GP-empty-waiting-room-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GP-empty-waiting-room-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GP-empty-waiting-room.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GP surgeries are being paid millions of pounds a year for patients who do not exist, figures show.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/ghost-patients-boost-gp-coffers-by-955-million\/ar-AA1mkAVC?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=4bf9ee5b04e34fdca2204d61714540ba&amp;ei=113\">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>GP surgeries are being paid millions of pounds a year for patients who do not exist, figures show.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55258","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\/04\/GP-empty-waiting-room.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55258","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=55258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55259,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55258\/revisions\/55259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}