GPs "paid £1,500 a night for A&E shifts"

It comes after a poll found that a third of GPs consider the public should be charged to attend A&ampE to deter those who do not need to have to do so.

A examine in 2011 estimated that unnecessary A&ampE visits are costing the NHS more than £100 million a 12 months.

Roger Goss, of the campaign group Patient Concern, advised the paper: “GPs can not be ready to turn out for their own patients but they are content to work elsewhere for a great deal more money.

“So significantly for the interests of the sufferers, it’s the interests of the physicians which are paramount.

“The explanation patients are going to A&ampE is due to the fact they can’t get into their very own surgical procedure.”

Meanwhile figures from the European Commission recommended that Britain has fewer operating physicians per head of population than virtually all other EU country.

The Uk had two.71 practising medical doctors for every single one,000 folks – fewer than countries including Bulgaria, Estonia and Latvia.

GPs "paid £1,500 a night for A&E shifts"