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Government announces seven-day GP access by 2020 (5 October 2015)
Date: 05/10/2015
The government has pledged seven-day access to GP services for NHS patients by 2020.
The announcement by the Prime Minister also revealed that seven-day hospital services would be rolled out across half the country by 2018.
The new services will make England the first country in the world to provide a seven-day health service, made possible by a £10 billion investment in the NHS.
Seven-day access to GP services will include evening GP appointments, as well as GP appointments at the weekend and by phone.
The government is committing £750 million over the next three years to fund improvements in healthcare premises, technology and more modern ways of working – such as supporting federations and larger practices in providing seven-day services through face-to-face, telephone, email and Skype consultations.
GP leaders have told the government that a new, voluntary contract option for general practice is needed – integrated with community nurses and other health and care professionals – to provide “more seamless, person-centred care” for NHS patients, in accordance with NHS England’s Five Year Forward View for patient services.
As part of a new “patient guarantee”, the Prime Minister announced that the government intends to make it a requirement in its new mandate to NHS England that they and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should ensure that every patient has access to seven-day services by 2020.
Duncan Lewis Clinical Negligence Solicitors – No win no fee GP Negligence Claims
Duncan Lewis clinical negligence solicitors can advise NHS patients and private healthcare patients who have suffered injury as a result of GP negligence or medical negligence on how to make a claim for compensation, including claims relating to:
• Cancer misdiagnosis
• Delays in diagnosis
• Failure to diagnose
• Failure to refer
• Failure to treat
• Misprescribing
• Prescription errors
• Wrong medical treatment.
GP negligence claims have to be made within three years of injury or diagnosis of injury – children can make GP negligence claims up to the age of 21.
For expert legal advice on no win no fee GP Negligence Claims, call Duncan Lewis Clinical Negligence Solicitors on 020 7923 4020.