GPs' leader hits out at plans for seven-day surgeries
Posted: 21 May 2015, 18:07GPs' leader hits out at plans for seven-day surgeries
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website
David Cameron needs to "get real" and ditch his "surreal obsession" with opening GP surgeries seven days a week, a senior GPs' representative says.
The British Medical Association's Dr Chaand Nagpaul said GP services were already at breaking point.
He will tell a conference that pledges to recruit 5,000 GPs in England would "fail dismally" as doctors were fleeing the profession.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32810368
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website
David Cameron needs to "get real" and ditch his "surreal obsession" with opening GP surgeries seven days a week, a senior GPs' representative says.
The British Medical Association's Dr Chaand Nagpaul said GP services were already at breaking point.
He will tell a conference that pledges to recruit 5,000 GPs in England would "fail dismally" as doctors were fleeing the profession.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32810368