New GP walk-in clinics and shorter NHS waiting times
I know greater access to your local GP is important to you.
That’s why the SNP are already spending £36 million to rollout of a new network of walk-in GP services, designed to make it easier for people like you to see GPs and other primary care clinicians quickly for urgent health concerns without needing an appointment.
The SNP have already opened the first one in Edinburgh with services focused on urgent, on-the-day care needs, similar to the care currently provided by GP out-of-hours services.
Services will be open 12pm-8pm, seven days per week, and will allow people to attend without a prior appointment.
That’s what a vote for the SNP will mean in the coming election – greater access to see a GP.
And after the incredible pressures the coronavirus pandemic put on the NHS the SNP is already bringing down waiting times.
The latest figures show NHS Scotland waiting times fell for the seventh straight month under the SNP.
Those figures are better than those in England and Wales where Labour is the government in control – particularly Wales where Labour has been in power for nearly 30 years.
Scotland’s NHS can’t afford the risk of a return to a Scottish Government run by a Labour party failing the NHS elsewhere in the UK, embroiled in chaos, and prepared to take power with the help of the Tories and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Such a service in the northwest of Glasgow could make a real difference in easing pressures and improving people’s experience.
As such, I have asked the Scottish Government if they will consider such a service here in the northwest of Glasgow. You can read my letter below.
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