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The Battle of Theresa May and the GPs: we don’t open long enough hours, placing undue pressure on hospitals, claims May. The NHS is in crisis, and blame has been… Click to show full abstract
The Battle of Theresa May and the GPs: we don’t open long enough hours, placing undue pressure on hospitals, claims May. The NHS is in crisis, and blame has been newly apportioned. Diversionary tactics are the political solution, but the problem remains the same: policy making without evidence. The prime minister thinks that GP surgery hours aren’t long enough. Newspapers “verify” this with untruths such as, when surgeries are closed, patients “have no choice but to go to already stretched A&E units.”12 This is untrue: local GP out-of-hours services are working, hard. May has responded with the kind of …
Journal Title: British Medical Journal
Year Published: 2017
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