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Friday, 15 November 2013
The NHS waiting list is ridiculous. My wife had to wait 9 months before she gave birth.
Watching this video, I see no major change to what is to happen with patients out of hours. From what I can gather, all that is going to happen, on an out of hours basis, is that the out of hours service can access the summary care record. And although Hunt states that is not happening at the moment, it is! Out of hours providers can access summary care records. Not all of them can, but many do so. What appears to be different is that all GP surgeries will need to provide this information, unless patients have opted out.
The facts are simple
There are not enough GP's
More and more GP's are leaving the country
So as much as people may moan about how GP's work, loads are leaving and we do not have enough already. Make GP's work harder and there will be more leaving and fewer doctors will opt to become one.
It would be interesting to see what suggestions people have to solve this!
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