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Originally Posted by Neil
No it was a stupid comment by a stupid politician who didn't stop to think how he would make is happen.
What really happened was that people ended up sitting waiting for longer in surgeries and it became hard to phone up and make an appointment for next week because they tried to keep all the appointments to give out in the morning for same day consultations to meet Government targets
It would have been good if the PM had put money into it and created more Doctors to reduce waiting times
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The following seems to indicate that's what happened, a steady increase in the number of doctors in the last ten years
GMC | List of Registered Medical Practitioners - statistics