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Originally Posted by Derek S
Well the GP's are happy with their new contract. And the Government get all manner of shiny statistics to play around with.
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Of course they're happy with it - they get paid a stack more, for less commitment. Not for them the responsibility of providing out-of-hours service, not in our shiny 21st century health 'service'. Not when you can force the unwell - who are, by definition, unwell enough not to be able to wait until the next day to see a doctor - to spend ages camping on the phone to give their details to a nurse working for NHS 24, further ages waiting for a distant GP to phone back and tell them to go to bed and if things don't improve to visit the out-of-hours provision at the 'local' hospital (a 40-mile round trip in our case, which my wife had to make the other week, only to get a row off them for turning up at the 'wrong' hospital because it was run by a different health authority, so they had to fill in the 'out-of-area patient' form as well, poor souls. Apparently the 'right' hospital was the one that's a 55-mile round trip).