{"id":65916,"date":"2018-11-06T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/06\/tens-of-thousands-of-aposuselessapos-child-tonsillectomies-costing-nhs-36-9m-a-year-new-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T00:23:12","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-aposuselessapos-child-tonsillectomies-costing-nhs-36-9m-a-year-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65916","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of &amp;apos;useless&amp;apos; child tonsillectomies costing NHS \u00a336.9m a year, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children receiving tonsillectomy after one sore throat in 10 per cent of cases, while others with serious problems never have operation<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/tonsil-removal-sore-throat-tonsillectomy-nhs-gp-surgery-symptoms-evidence-a8618816.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tens of thousands of &amp;apos;useless&amp;apos; child tonsillectomies costing NHS \u00a336.9m a year, new study shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children receiving tonsillectomy after one sore throat in 10 per cent of cases, while others with serious problems never have operation Via: Tens of thousands of &amp;apos;useless&amp;apos; child tonsillectomies costing NHS \u00a336.9m a year, new study shows<\/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-65916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916","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=65916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}