Thousands of GP practices are closing their doors on afternoons, while others take a three-hour lunch break A report published yesterday said surgeries’ part-time hours were partly to blame for the crisis in hospitals It highlighted how half of the 7,600 practices in England closed at least once during the normal working week Some accuse [...]
The doctor WON'T see you now: Mail names and shames some of the thousands of GP surgeries shutting up shop in the afternoon
Published on Jan 13, 2017
How hospital chiefs spend millions to STOP you being treated: Four in ten trusts are sifting through GPs letters and sending back any deemed unnecessary
Published on Jan 4, 2017
Four in ten trusts have set up the so-called ‘referral management centres’ Thirty-nine per cent of local clinical commissioning groups check referrals Referrals include requests for hip and knee replacements, cataract treatment or scans to check for cancer Health bosses are spending tens of millions of poun [...]
Why you could face a four-week wait to see your GP this winter: Warning surgeries are 'skating on thin ice' as more patients fall ill with flu and chest infections
Published on Dec 29, 2016
GPs will be so busy trying to 'firefight' urgent cases others will be pushed back Professor Helen-Stokes Lampard warns that delays could be 'life-threatening' And complaints such as lump in breast could soon become urgent if delayed GP leader said she is 'profoundly worried' about impact of pressure on p [...]
You STILL can't see your GP out of hours: After all those promises to patients fewer than a fifth of surgeries offer appointments at the weekend
Published on Dec 16, 2016
Fewer than a fifth of surgeries offer evening and weekend appointments When patients do get out-of-hours slots they are seeing 'unfamiliar' doctors Government has pledged to offer nationwide out-of-hours care by 2020 Tens of millions of patients still cannot see a GP out of hours despite a major drive for longer opening ti [...]