Don’t miss this: Proposals for seven-day NHS are immoral, says leading GP

Last Updated: May 19, 2016By
Nagpaul poured scorn on ‘the repeated political mantra of 5,000 more GPs by 2020’, which Jeremy Hunt, pictured, has promised to deliver in England [Image: Steve Back/Barcroft Images].

Nagpaul poured scorn on ‘the repeated political mantra of 5,000 more GPs by 2020’, which Jeremy Hunt, pictured, has promised to deliver in England [Image: Steve Back/Barcroft Images].

At least one GP is unhappy with Germy’s vision of a seven-day NHS, then.

Expecting GP surgeries to open between 8am and 8pm every day is an immoral misuse of scarce NHS resources that could damage patients’ health, a leading family doctor has said.

Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association’s GPs committee, also said being forced to allow just 10 minutes for each patient appointment was “neither humane nor defensible”.

In a strongly worded attack on the government’s drive to make family doctors more accessible at weekends as part of a seven-day NHS, Nagpaul said: “We must reject the immorality of taking GPs away from caring for acutely ill patients to sit in empty surgeries superfluous to need.”

Source: Proposals for seven-day NHS are immoral, says leading GP | Society | The Guardian

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One Comment

  1. Rupert Mitchell (@rupert_rrl) May 20, 2016 at 6:34 am - Reply

    One needs to look further into the benefits of the longer opening hours and I can’t possibly imagine any Tory MP going to any GP knowing that he or she would only be allowed 10mins to discuss a problem which might require much longer.

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