{"id":80836,"date":"2025-10-27T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80836"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:03:32","slug":"scandal-of-the-5-million-nhs-ghosts-more-patients-than-ever-still-registered-at-gps-despite-having-died-or-moved-away-and-surgeries-claim-170-for-each-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/27\/scandal-of-the-5-million-nhs-ghosts-more-patients-than-ever-still-registered-at-gps-despite-having-died-or-moved-away-and-surgeries-claim-170-for-each-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal of the 5 million NHS &#8216;ghosts&#8217;: More patients than ever still registered at GPs despite having died or moved away &#8211; and surgeries claim \u00a3170 for each one&#8230;"},"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:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/6CBD\/production\/_102673872_gettyimages-460492814.jpg\" alt=\"Inside an empty GP consultation room\" width=\"527\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GPs are raking in more cash than ever from patients who do not exist, the Daily Mail can today reveal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15166933\/5MILLION-ghost-patients-registered-GP-surgeries.html\">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>GPs are raking in more cash than ever from patients who do not exist, the Daily Mail can today reveal.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80836","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\/06\/Doctor.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80836","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=80836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80837,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80836\/revisions\/80837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}