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NHS 111 should be scrapped
At the annual two day Local Medical Committees (LMCs) conference, which took place on 21-22 May 2015 at the Institute of Education, London, Dr Faye Wilson, an ex-chair of the LMCs conference said: “It should be scrapped. Full stop.
“Two thirds of patients we see in out of hours are forced to use NHS 111 to get in, and despite the fact that we lost funding - because we don’t now handle these calls - we spend as much time sorting out queries, checking information and making outgoing calls, as we used to do handling the calls.”
Dr Sue Roberts from Somerset LMCs argued for a local service to be commissioned to replace NHS 111, but this was roundly rejected by GPs, who voted to scrap NHS 111 in its present form, and voted against it being re-commissioned as a local service.
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