{"id":79809,"date":"2025-09-23T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79809"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:08:16","slug":"violence-in-gp-surgeries-driven-by-waiting-times-and-drug-refusals-global-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/23\/violence-in-gp-surgeries-driven-by-waiting-times-and-drug-refusals-global-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence in GP surgeries driven by waiting times and drug refusals, global study shows"},"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\/AA1N5SjS.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=679&amp;y=287&amp;s=518&amp;d=518\" alt=\"Prof Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says violence against GPs and their teams is widespread. Photograph: RCGP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Violence and abuse by patients against staff in GP clinics is widespread globally and usually triggered by long waiting times and the refusal to prescribe requested drugs, research shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/violence-in-gp-surgeries-driven-by-waiting-times-and-drug-refusals-global-study-shows\/ar-AA1N5ZNy?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68d2694a2e774f0d8e78e0c1142108ba&amp;ei=70\">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>Violence and abuse by patients against staff in GP clinics is widespread globally and usually triggered by long waiting times and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79809","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\/2023\/01\/GP-surgery-trashed.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79809","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=79809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79810,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79809\/revisions\/79810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}