{"id":60776,"date":"2018-10-01T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/01\/one-in-four-evening-and-weekend-gp-appointments-unused\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:01:07","slug":"one-in-four-evening-and-weekend-gp-appointments-unused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=60776","title":{"rendered":"One in four evening and weekend GP appointments unused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS England claims seven-day GP policy is popular despite low take-up on SundaysResearch suggesting that one in four evening and weekend GP appointments in England are going unfilled has been described as \u201cshocking\u201d by critics of the government\u2019s controversial drive to guarantee access to family doctors at weekends.Around half a million appointment slots have been left empty on evenings and weekends, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) from 80 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/oct\/01\/one-in-four-evening-and-weekend-gp-appointments-unused\" target=\"_blank\">One in four evening and weekend GP appointments unused<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS England claims seven-day GP policy is popular despite low take-up on SundaysResearch suggesting that one in four evening and weekend GP appointments in England are going unfilled has been described as \u201cshocking\u201d by critics of the government\u2019s controversial drive to guarantee access to family doctors at weekends.Around half a [&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-60776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776","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=60776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}