{"id":65098,"date":"2024-09-08T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=65098"},"modified":"2024-09-08T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:43:40","slug":"ten-minute-appointments-its-not-surprising-patients-have-unfinished-business-with-their-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/08\/ten-minute-appointments-its-not-surprising-patients-have-unfinished-business-with-their-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten-minute appointments: It\u2019s not surprising patients have unfinished business with their GP"},"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-63706\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GP-surgery-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GP-surgery-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GP-surgery-555x360.jpg 555w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GP-surgery-360x232.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GP-surgery.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>here\u2019s a special kind of irony to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/nhs-liberal-democrats-ed-davey-patients-gps-b2496833.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}\">GP appointments<\/a> these days. You must overcome countless obstacles to secure one: waiting on hold even when you were poised to ring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/ten-minute-appointments-it-s-not-surprising-patients-have-unfinished-business-with-their-gp\/ar-AA1pTjoL?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=c4a2f854ec364329995746bd5ce217d7&amp;ei=145\">\u00a0Read 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>There\u2019s a special kind of irony to\u00a0GP appointments these days. You must overcome countless obstacles to secure one: waiting on hold even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65098","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\/2024\/07\/GP-strike.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65098","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=65098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65099,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65098\/revisions\/65099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}