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GPs agree to longer hours after government 'threats'

Family doctors' surgeries are to open for an extra three hours a week after GPs caved in to government demands that they provide evening and weekend services. A poll of 27,000 GPs voted in favour of longer opening hours after pressure from the BMA, the professional body that negotiates on behalf of doctors.

Surgeries will now have the option of opening either until 8pm on two nights a week or between 9.30am and 11.30am on Saturdays.

But the doctors' concession came reluctantly, with 98 per cent of those polled saying the Government's strong-arm tactics had been "unacceptable".

The BMA has been locked in a long-running battle with ministers over longer opening hours ever since it emerged that ...

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