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Originally Posted by Derek
is down to GPs contracts being renegotiated by the last government which pretty much abolished night and weekend cover for minor ailments.
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Which is a stupid way to save money.. I don't know the exact figures, but I was told by a friend of my mums (who was quite high up in our local A&E department at the time, and certainly had access to the figures) that it costs the NHS as a whole considerably more to treat a patient at A&E for a minor ailment than it does for the GP to treat that minor ailment.