Doctors ordered to stop half-day closing at surgeries and threatened with £40k funding axe

Doctors ordered to stop half-day closing at surgeries and threatened with £40k funding axe The NHS is launching a major crackdown on GP surgeries which close for half-days during the week, the Mail can reveal.

Officials have identified 722 practices in England – a tenth of the total – which regularly close their doors for at least four hours at a time, including lengthy lunch breaks or midweek afternoons off.

They say that if these surgeries remained open, an additional 287,000 appointments would be available every year. The Daily Mail