article_snippet.sent: Under this government, we've got more doctors, more nurses and more patients being seen than ever before.'
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Labour's 'shoddy figures quoted only go up to 2013/14 and that since then, the Conservatives' extended hours scheme, announced last year, has covered 1,100 practices and helped 7.5million patients see GPs in the evenings and at weekends.
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said by next year the Conservatives' extended hours scheme will cover 1,400 additional practices, serving 10 million more people.
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Labour's disastrous 2004 GP contract had allowed GPs to opt out of responsibility for GPs patients out of hours.
article_snippet.sent: Patient access to extended hour services hasn't got worse, as these figures ignore the Prime Minister's new scheme.'
article_snippet.sent: In April 2014, David Cameron launched David Cameron £50million Challenge Fund to pay for GPs to open out-ofhours.
article_snippet.sent: It guaranteed at least one GP surgery locally would be available in the evening and weekends.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories say The Tories has led to improved access for 7.5million people at 1,100 surgeries.
article_snippet.sent: Not only did Labour abolish the requirement for every patient to have a named GP who was responsible for them, instead attaching them only to a surgery, but, most crucially, GPs were given more money despite no longer being required to work at weekends or at night.
article_snippet.sent: Former health Minister Mike O'Brien said the deal Labour gave to Nine out often GPs was 'the best Labour ever had...
article_snippet.sent: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has since made modest changes to the contract, such as giving four million over-75s a named GP, but there is still no requirement to work out- of-hours.
article_snippet.sent: Along with foreign aid, spending on the health service was ring-fenced from the cuts.