The doctor won't see you now: patients lose 'automatic right' to same-day appointment Patients will lose their “automatic right” to a same-day doctor’s appointment under new plans to cope with the shortage of GPs.
Oxfordshire will become what is thought to be the first area to scrap guaranteed access for urgent patients, as part of an overhaul labelled “cuts in disguise”.
Callers to the county’s 72 NHS surgeries will instead be “triaged” so as to determine whether they are ill enough to fill one of just 13 slots a day at each practice. The Daily Telegraph
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