Wednesday 14 October 2015

NHS seven-day plans will fail without more resources, warns doctors' chief

NHS seven-day plans will fail without more resources, warns doctors' chief Royal College of Physicians president criticises health secretary for questioning medics’ dedication and says NHS needs more than £8bn extra funding

The government’s “utopian” plan for a seven-day NHS is doomed to failure due to a lack of doctors, money and diagnostic testing services, the leader of England’s hospital doctors has warned.

Prof Jane Dacre’s gloomy prognosis is a blow to David Cameron’s key election pledge of turning the NHS into a seven-day service by 2020 in order to improve patients’ quality of care. Continue reading... The Guardian

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