article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband, arriving at an election campaign event in Bristol this morning, has promised to bin the Government's NHS reforms .
article_snippet.sent: Labour has been accused of ‘hypocrisy’ and using out-of-date figures after claiming the Coalition has made it harder to get a GP appointment.
article_snippet.sent: The Labour Party has put the NHS at the centre of The Labour Party campaign for re-election, releasing a poster today dubbed 'The doctor can't see you now', as Labour claim almost 600 fewer GP surgeries are offering extended opening hours to patients .
article_snippet.sent: But The Labour Party pointed out that the GP figures dated from 2013/14 – and did not include improvements in GP access since David Cameron pumped more money into the NHS last year.
article_snippet.sent: Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, pointed out that Tony Blair’s botched GP contract of 2004 has allowed GPs to opt out of responsibility for Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary patients out of hours.
article_snippet.sent: And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said it was a ‘bit rich’ of Labour to complain of funding cuts when Labour wasted so much NHS money in power.
article_snippet.sent: A string of medical leaders came out to say Tony Blair’s claims on GP surgeries were simply wrong.
article_snippet.sent: But in an embarrassment for the party, the Labour-run Welsh government said the Labour-run Welsh government had no plans to introduce such a target in the principality.
article_snippet.sent: the Labour-run Welsh government came after the party launched a poster declaring the ‘Tories have made it harder to see a GP’.
article_snippet.sent: a poster declaring the ‘Tories have made it harder to see a GP’ reworks the Conservatives’ 1979
article_snippet.sent: Labour isn't working’ image by depicting a huge queue outside a waiting room with the title:
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Hunt said the claim there are 590 fewer surgeries was ‘wrong’, saying that the figures quoted only go up to 2013/14.