Thursday 20 December 2018

NHS England launches seven-day GP advertising campaign

NHS England launches seven-day GP advertising campaign Seven-day access has now been fully rolled out across England, according to NHS England.

The body said that every patient in England should now able to see a GP in the evening or at weekends, with around nine million extra appointments set to be provided a year.

NHS England said it has launched a communications campaign in the run up to Christmas to raise public awareness of the extra appointments.

This comes after a Pulse investigation earlier this year revealed that the scheme failed to fill appointments in areas where it was rolled out and garnered little support from GP leaders. Pulse

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