Pay Pounds 20 to See Your Gp in the Evening ; Doctors On Pounds 100,000 Will Open Surgeries Out of Hours but Only If Theyre Paid

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GPs want to charge Pounds 20 an appointment if they have to open surgeries in evenings and at weekends.

Their call is a response to proposals that they should extend their hours to justify salaries which have soared in the past three years.

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Pay Pounds 20 to See Your Gp in the Evening ; Doctors On Pounds 100,000 Will Open Surgeries Out of Hours but Only If Theyre Paid

A group of family doctors from

say it would undermine the Science Correspondent founding principles of the National Health Service

and across the country will table the could put lives at risk if patients de...