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Labour is badly wrong on GP services
Divorcing doctors, as the first line of our universal healthcare system, from the NHS by turning them into salaried employees is an obvious move towards further privatisation, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
A registration form and a stethoscope at GP surgery

THE NHS was a world-class, cost-effective and safe system three decades ago.

The entire country benefited from timely GP appointments, rapid emergency access to A&E, sufficient hospital beds and safe staffing levels.

Any upheaval in primary care should be opposed because years of “reform and modernisation” have already plunged a healthcare system that was the envy of the world into an unprecedented crisis.

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