{"id":85749,"date":"2026-03-01T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85749"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:23:07","slug":"why-are-more-gps-opting-to-work-outside-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/01\/why-are-more-gps-opting-to-work-outside-the-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are more GPs opting to work outside the NHS?"},"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\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/2ed7\/live\/1c115f40-13cd-11f1-801d-ed3cff6bf876.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Yvonne Girgis-Hanna looks directly at the camera and smiles. She is wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a blue cardigan over a white patterned blouse and is sitting in a consulting room.\" width=\"552\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">In her consulting room, Dr Yvonne Girgis-Hanna is at work as a GP, but not for the NHS.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3wln1dlev6o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>In her consulting room, Dr Yvonne Girgis-Hanna is at work as a GP, but not for the NHS.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85749","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\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85749","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=85749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85750,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85749\/revisions\/85750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}