article_snippet: In The Prime Minister speech at the Conservative spring conference in Manchester today, The Prime Minister will say: ‘For years it’s been too hard to access Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust out of hours.
article_snippet: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS Medical Director, said it was ‘inefficient’ for diagnostic machines and pathology laboratories to lie dormant at weekends while access is ‘dogged by waiting lists’.
article_snippet: Professor Sir Norman Williams, former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said the planned reform could Professor Sir Norman Williams, former president of the Royal College of Surgeonstransform the quality of care’ at the weekend.
article_snippet: And Dr Mark Porter, of the British Medical Association, called the British Medical Association
article_snippet: Labour health spokesman Andy Burnham added: ‘It will, for example, take much longer than five years to train the extra doctors needed, and without a considerable increase in staff and resources, weekday services might face being scaled back, affecting patient care.