DOCTORS will have to enlist patients in the fight against an onslaught of Con-Dem cuts, pensioners at a national gathering in Blackpool were told yesterday.

Royal College of General Practitioners vice-chair Dr Tim Ballard told delegates at the National Pensioners Convention that it should be celebrated that more people were living longer lives.

But old age often meant complex medical conditions — and GPs were being ordered to do even more with less than ever before.