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Monday, January 30, 2006Outlining some of the proposals, Ms Hewitt said: "People are telling us they want much more convenient services and we have got to respond to that. "We would like to have far more treatments such as X-rays and other diagnostic procedures being done in health centres rather than going to the big hospital when it is not really necessary." Ms Hewitt has already said that GP practices could be encouraged to start longer opening hours to fit in with the demands of working people. She also said that a minority of GP surgeries were still operating restrictive booking policies, where patients have to ring between certain times on the morning of the day they want an appointment. This was causing frustration among patients, Ms Hewitt added. There have also been suggestions that some health services could be placed in more convenient locations, such as supermarkets, and pharmacies and private providers could also deliver more care for patients. Guess "free" health care doesn't always translate into accessible healthcare. More improtant, the fact that these sorts of trends are happening both here under our employer-government funded system and a completely government funded system suggests the problem may be one of demographics rather than economics. Too many patients, too few generalists. posted by Sydney on 1/30/2006 07:34:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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