Row over GPs’ opening times - Carlisle News & Star 4th January 2008

HEALTH Secretary Alan Johnson has written to every GP in England to explain why he wants surgeries to open at evenings and weekends, it was reported today. The government is embroiled in a row with doctors over extended opening hours. It wants GP surgeries to open for an extra half hour for every 1,000 patients, in blocks of one-and-a-half hours. For an average GP practice with 6,000 patients, this would mean an extra three hours a week.

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