GP appointments
NHS cuts
Tory Cuts
Tory levelling-up rhetoric
Public Health
Health
New data from the NHS has shown that more people are waiting a month for a GP appointment than at any time since when records began in 2017.
1,988 people in Washington and Sunderland West faced a wait of 28 days or more to see a GP in October alone.
A further 5,503 people had to wait more than two weeks.
1,988 Patients made to wait over a month for a GP appointment in Washington and Sunderland West.
NHS
NHS cuts
GP appointments
Tory Cuts
Tory levelling-up rhetoric
Doctors
Labour
The doctor can’t see you now – 15% of people across the North East and North Cumbria who try to make a GP appointment don’t get one, whilst 59,947 are forced to wait over a month.
The doctor can’t see you now.
Tory sleaze
Tory Cuts
NHS cuts
Tory levelling-up rhetoric
Keir Starmer
Echo Column
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After all the sleaze, the scandals and the failure, it’s time for proper change.
At long last, Boris Johnson has announced that he will be stepping down as leader of the ruling Conservative party. And yet, this disgraced, law-breaking Prime Minister is trying to cling to power and wait until autumn to resign as PM.
ECHO COLUMN: After all the sleaze, the scandals and the failure, it’s time for proper change.
Sharon Hodgson MP's report - Jun-July 2022 number 152
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