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Wes Streeting won’t end the 8am GP appointment scramble

6 May 2025

8:42 PM

6 May 2025

8:42 PM

You can say it for Wes Streeting: he doesn’t hang about. Reacting to the heavy loss of council seats in last week’s elections, he is proffering £102 million of money for extra GPs’ appointments – hopefully to end what has been termed the “8am scramble”: a kind of Hunger Games which NHS patients have to go through in order to be seen.

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