NHS cannot afford to run seven day services for convenience, managers warn on eve of summit

NHS cannot afford to run seven day services for convenience, managers warn on eve of summit The NHS cannot afford to run seven day services simply for the convenience of patients, healthcare leaders have said.

The warning from the NHS Confederation comes as Jeremy Hunt faces medics for the first time since a bitter industrial dispute with junior doctors came to an end.

The symposium today by the British Medical Association (BMA), follows a climb-down from the union, after a long conflict over changes to doctors’ contracts which followed Government pledges to improve levels of medical cover at weekends. The Daily Telegraph