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David Cameron’s £50million scheme for seven-days-a-week GP surgeries was today exposed as a sham.
Plans for daily 8am-8pm coverage in five of seven pilot areas have not begun – a year after the PM trumpeted them at the Tory conference.
The failure was exposed in a probe by GPs’ magazine Pulse.
The British Medical Association’s Dr Robert Morley said it confirmed his belief the idea was a “political gimmick”.
He added: “Here we are, nearly half way through the year of the pilots - if nothing is happening then it puts some of these pilots at risk.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-camerons-seven-day-gp-surgeries-4232558
Plans for daily 8am-8pm coverage in five of seven pilot areas have not begun – a year after the PM trumpeted them at the Tory conference.
The failure was exposed in a probe by GPs’ magazine Pulse.
The British Medical Association’s Dr Robert Morley said it confirmed his belief the idea was a “political gimmick”.
He added: “Here we are, nearly half way through the year of the pilots - if nothing is happening then it puts some of these pilots at risk.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-camerons-seven-day-gp-surgeries-4232558
