article_snippet: Research shows the number of visits to casualty has dropped by 8 per cent in areas where patients can see family doctors seven days a week.
article_snippet: Academics say there is a huge decrease in the numbers going to emergency departments with mild or moderate ailments such as colds, sprains and back ache.
article_snippet: The research found that, on average, the number of patients arriving at A&E dropped by 8 per cent – up to a 10 per cent reduction at weekends.
article_snippet: If this were true for all surgeries across England, then an estimated 1.736million fewer patients would have gone to casualty last year.
article_snippet: Draft research by NHS England last month found that, since the scheme was established in Birmingham, the number of A&E patients had dropped by as much as 25 per cent at one practice.
article_snippet: Research shows the number of visits to casualty dropped by 8 per cent in areas where patients can see family doctors seven days a week.
article_snippet: It’s having a significant effect on A&E and
highlights_snippet: Casualty visits dropped in areas where patients can see doctors every day .
  
highlights_snippet: Huge decrease in numbers going to A&E with mild or moderate ailments .
  