{"id":22088,"date":"2018-01-02T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T00:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/02\/patients-missing-their-appointments-cost-the-nhs-1bn-last-year\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T00:53:11","slug":"patients-missing-their-appointments-cost-the-nhs-1bn-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=22088","title":{"rendered":"Patients missing their appointments cost the NHS \u00a31bn last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The money wasted could have funded 1m more cataract operations or 250,000 hip replacements, says chief nursing officerAs the NHS struggles with budget cuts, soaring demand and staff shortages, almost \u00a31bn is being wasted annually by patients missing appointments, figures reveal. In response, England\u2019s chief nurse has urged patients to cancel their NHS appointments in good time if they are not able to attend, in order to free up resources for those who need them. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/jan\/02\/patients-missing-their-appointments-cost-the-nhs-1bn-last-year\" target=\"_blank\">Patients missing their appointments cost the NHS \u00a31bn last year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The money wasted could have funded 1m more cataract operations or 250,000 hip replacements, says chief nursing officerAs the NHS struggles with budget cuts, soaring demand and staff shortages, almost \u00a31bn is being wasted annually by patients missing appointments, figures reveal. In response, England\u2019s chief nurse has urged patients to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}