{"id":79216,"date":"2025-09-05T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79216"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:45:03","slug":"nhs-surgeon-jailed-for-fraud-over-amputation-of-his-own-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/05\/nhs-surgeon-jailed-for-fraud-over-amputation-of-his-own-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS surgeon jailed for fraud over amputation of his own legs"},"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=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/09\/04\/21\/101849711-15067243-Dr_Neil_Hopper_wearing_surgical_scrubs_and_prosthetic_legs-a-26_1757019297113.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Neil Hopper was feted as a hero surgeon who lost his legs to sepsis ...\" width=\"505\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/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<\/a> vascular surgeon has been jailed for 32 months after admitting fraud relating to the amputation of his own legs and possessing extreme pornography of genital mutilation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-surgeon-jailed-for-fraud-over-amputation-of-his-own-legs\/ar-AA1LSQVI?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">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>An\u00a0NHS vascular surgeon has been jailed for 32 months after admitting fraud relating to the amputation of his own legs and possessing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79216","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\/2025\/07\/Neil-Hopper.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79216","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=79216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79217,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79216\/revisions\/79217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}