{"id":91476,"date":"2026-07-01T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91476"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:17:21","slug":"hospital-worker-steals-279k-of-operating-theatre-equipment-and-sells-it-back-to-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/hospital-worker-steals-279k-of-operating-theatre-equipment-and-sells-it-back-to-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital worker steals \u00a3279k of operating theatre equipment &#8211; and sells it back to 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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse1.mm.bing.net\/th\/id\/OIF.1V9wdECoQgdRexFiea0pKA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3\" alt=\"Hospital worker steals \u00a3279k of operating theatre equipment - and sells ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ex-<a title=\"NHS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/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> worker faces jail after conning taxpayers\u2019 out of \u00a3279,000 \u2013 by repeatedly selling the NHS\u2019s own equipment back to them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/hospital-worker-steals-279k-of-operating-theatre-equipment-and-sells-it-back-to-nhs\/ar-AA26YOsh?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=e39eb180c5654fd4b6baffc9144ec479&ei=41\">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 ex-NHS worker faces jail after conning taxpayers\u2019 out of \u00a3279,000 \u2013 by repeatedly selling the NHS\u2019s own equipment back to them&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91476","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=91476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91477,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91476\/revisions\/91477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}