GP failings costing us £1billion, say firms sick of employees taking time off for doctor visits - Daily Mail 18th September 2007

Family doctors are costing business a billion pounds a year because it is so hard to see them outside normal working hours, employers said. The Confederation of British Industry said millions of staff were forced to take time off work to visit GPs because they could not get evening or weekend appointments.

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