article_snippet.sent: Labour will today accuse the Tories of making the Tories harder to see a GP as Labour attempt to put NHS back at the centre of the election campaign.
article_snippet.sent: But the Tories last night claimed many of the problems stemmed from Labour’s 2004 changes to GP contracts that allowed the Tories to opt out of providing care outside office hours.
article_snippet.sent: As the government unveils the government new poster, Labour will release a new document that the government claims shows how David Cameron has failed to implement seven-day opening for GP surgeries as David Cameron promised before the last election.
article_snippet.sent: After five years of David Cameron, patients at hundreds of surgeries can no longer get a GP appointment when patients at hundreds of surgeries need one.
article_snippet.sent: At the last Election, he promised to open GP surgeries seven days a week but the reality is that millions more patients are unhappy with opening hours.
article_snippet.sent: One of David Cameron’s first acts as Prime Minister was to cut Labour’s extended opening hours scheme and scrap our guarantee of an appointment within 48 hours.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The next Conservative Government will deliver a truly seven-day NHS, putting right a problem which began with Labour’s disastrous 2004 GP contract.