News Politics Jeremy Hunt Senior NHS figure challenges Jeremy Hunt over causes of A&E

[Northerner]

There is no link between the crisis in hospital A&E departments and GPs opting out of out-of-hours care, a leading NHS figure has said ? in a direct challenge to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt.

Mike Farrar, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, the body representing organisations commissioning and providing health services, questioned Hunt's assertion that Labour was to blame for a public loss of confidence in alternatives to casualty by agreeing a new contract with family doctors in 2004.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/21/senior-nhs-challenge-jeremy-hunt

 

[ypauly]

I don't believe that, getting a normal appointment is hard but getting one out of hours especially with your own GP is impossible, that leaves A&E as the first option for many.

That contract change that labour did was at best daft and at worst criminal.