article_snippet.sent: Today, across the country, people will face the frustration of joining a queue to see people GP – in some places the lines will go out of the surgery door.
article_snippet.sent: It is now harder to get an appointment from Monday to Friday too.
article_snippet.sent: n’t protect the NHS and the queues outside GP surgeries will get even worse.
article_snippet.sent: A survey by the Mail next year found that nationwide, only one in three patients can secure a same-day GP appointment.
article_snippet.sent: More than one in five have to wait longer than a week, while 4 per cent have to wait two to three weeks.
article_snippet.sent: A number of surgeries were found to have long lines of patients waiting outside at 7am in a bid to try and get same-day appointments.