{"id":77943,"date":"2025-07-27T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77943"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:22:08","slug":"unnecessary-gp-and-ae-visits-for-minor-problems-cost-nhs-1-7billion-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/unnecessary-gp-and-ae-visits-for-minor-problems-cost-nhs-1-7billion-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary GP and A&#038;E visits for minor problems cost NHS \u00a31.7billion a year"},"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\/AA1Jh84v.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=199&amp;y=105&amp;s=63&amp;d=63\" alt=\"Doctor and patient\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Would you go to accident and emergency for a minor problem such as travel sickness, acne or conjunctivitis?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/unnecessary-gp-and-a-e-visits-for-minor-problems-cost-nhs-1-7billion-a-year\/ar-AA1Jh3aP?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;cvid=917feb462bd548d9c2e658cba2e90d25&amp;ei=42\"> 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>Would you go to accident and emergency for a minor problem such as travel sickness, acne or conjunctivitis? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77943","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\/08\/GP-surgery.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77943","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=77943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77944,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77943\/revisions\/77944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}