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GPs blame ‘worried well’ for overloading the NHS

Mar 17th, 2010 | Filed under DailyMail

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Add to My Stories ‘Let them use the service they fund’: Matthew Elliot from the Taxpayers’ Alliance Doctors sparked controversy yesterday by accusing the worried well of having a ‘catastrophic impact’ on the NHS by bombarding GPs with visits over coughs and colds. The newly formed Self Care Campaign claims the NHS is ‘the victim of a demand-led culture’ with 51.4million consultations a year for minor problems. But critics said it was wrong for family doctors to complain about being overworked when, since new contracts in 2004, they worked fewer hours and earned more

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