IT is difficult to fault the various compelling arguments expressed on pages 1, 2 and 12 of the paper on October 3 highlighting the considerable pitfalls of David Cameron’s proposal that GP practices should be open seven days a week.
While increasing stress levels and apparently dwindling salaries are by no means irrelevant, the newly qualified are, however, surely further deterred from taking up this specific profession because it is considered lacking in stimulation, and maybe nowadays prestige, compared with specialisation.
A pupil of mine once lamented that his job was largely restricted to dishing out prescriptions and referring his patients elsewhere – and I should imagine this situation is not too dissimilar 1,000 miles north and 35 years on.
David Diment
Riverside Court
Oxford
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