{"id":702,"date":"2018-02-28T03:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/34884743a225f0cf9229a5a69511d7c8-15412.sites.k-hosting.co.uk\/?p=702"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:43:11","slug":"gps-get-incentive-not-to-refer-patients-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"GPs Get Incentive Not To Refer Patients To Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big problem for treating cancer patients in the UK is late presentation.\u00a0 This affects the chances of survival. I know of many patients who needed many GP consultations before they did get a hospital appointment.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems some commissioning groups are rewarding GPs for NOT making a referral to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-gp-savings-sick-patients-operations-avoid-hospital-treatment-reward-cash-a8231591.html\" target=\"_blank\">INCENTIVES for GPs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article (and others published recently) are sketchy regarding details but anything that delays a potential cancer diagnosis is unwelcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big problem for treating cancer patients in the UK is late presentation.\u00a0 This affects the chances of survival. I know of many patients who needed many GP consultations before they did get a hospital appointment. It now seems some commissioning groups are rewarding GPs for NOT making a referral to a hospital. INCENTIVES for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/?p=702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GPs Get Incentive Not To Refer Patients To Hospital<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnchelp.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}