Tagged: GP appointments

Focus on Disability - For Disabled People, the Elderly and their Carers in the UK

6th July 2015

Charging for missed appointments – Hunt slapped down

Downing Street have slapped down the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt insisting that the Government had no plans to charge patients who missed NHS appointments. Last Thursday Mr Hunt backed the principle of fining people who...

Focus on Disability / Health / NHS

17th March 2015

Pharmacists – A ‘hidden Army’ that could reduce GP waiting times

Charlie Cooper writing in the Independent Daily Briefing – Patients visiting their GP surgery with long-term health problems such as asthma and high blood pressure could be given an appointment with an in-house pharmacist instead...