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I don’t know the answer but I do know that the current system is awful. Only this week our local doctors surgery has changed its system. If you want a same day appointment you have to go on a list and then travel 10 miles in the worst traffic imaginable to see someone. who may only be a nurse. Our local surgery has plenty of nurses who used to deal with a lot, and presumably they’ve been moved to the new community place. Our council are determined to build in excess of 10000 houses so the situation is going to get lot worse.
There was also a story in our local paper which sums up our local A&E
This is quite normal here and explains why ambulances are slow for real emergencies. My dads GP phoned an ambulance for him once because he said if he got a lift there, he would have a much longer wait which could have been very dangerous for him so that ambulance was potentially diverted from somebody who needed it more.