{"id":70321,"date":"2018-12-07T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/07\/one-in-five-patients-now-waits-at-least-two-weeks-to-see-a-gp-finds-report\/"},"modified":"2018-12-07T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:40:33","slug":"one-in-five-patients-now-waits-at-least-two-weeks-to-see-a-gp-finds-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=70321","title":{"rendered":"One in five patients now waits at least two weeks to see a GP, finds report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors warned delays exposed by NHS research would make illnesses more costly to treatOne in five patients now has to wait at least 15 days to see a GP in England, NHS figures have revealed.Just under 5m of the 27.1m appointments at GPs\u2019 surgeries in October involved waiting anywhere between 15 and 28 or more days to see a doctor or practice nurse. That was almost one in five (18.3%) of the total consultations available, NHS Digital figures showed. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/dec\/07\/one-in-five-patients-now-waits-at-least-two-weeks-to-see-a-gp-finds-report\" target=\"_blank\">One in five patients now waits at least two weeks to see a GP, finds report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors warned delays exposed by NHS research would make illnesses more costly to treatOne in five patients now has to wait at least 15 days to see a GP in England, NHS figures have revealed.Just under 5m of the 27.1m appointments at GPs\u2019 surgeries in October involved waiting anywhere between [&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-70321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70321","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=70321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}