{"id":77713,"date":"2025-07-22T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77713"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:12:13","slug":"nhs-patients-blinded-after-locum-doctor-botched-their-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/nhs-patients-blinded-after-locum-doctor-botched-their-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS patients blinded after locum doctor botched their cases"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1J0uiH.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Significant harm was caused to several patients because of failings by the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, Warwickshire - Joe Giddens\/PA Archive\/PA Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/07\/21\/britain-must-stop-subsidising-pensioners-to-save-the-nhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS patients<\/a> have gone blind after cases were botched by a locum doctor. Read More<\/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>NHS patients have gone blind after cases were botched by a locum doctor. 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-77713","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\/77713","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=77713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77714,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77713\/revisions\/77714"}],"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=77713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}