{"id":90967,"date":"2026-06-21T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90967"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:31:49","slug":"five-million-ghost-patients-cost-the-nhs-millions-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/21\/five-million-ghost-patients-cost-the-nhs-millions-each-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Five million &#8216;ghost patients&#8217; cost the NHS millions each 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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26aU2Z.img?w=768&h=480&m=6\" alt=\"Hospital ward\" width=\"707\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five million \u201cghost patients\u201d cost the NHS millions of pounds each year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/five-million-ghost-patients-cost-the-nhs-millions-each-year\/ar-AA26aMiS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a34f7e66d724e2288d18766fe972891&cvpid=16615f4d25644bf5de870977c345d075&ei=6\">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>Five million \u201cghost patients\u201d cost the NHS millions of pounds each year. 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":["post-90967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/90967","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=90967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90968,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90967\/revisions\/90968"}],"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=90967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}