labourpress:

Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, commenting on the BMA’s remarks on seven-day services today said:

“David Cameron’s plans for a seven-day NHS are simply not credible without the extra resources and staff the NHS needs – particularly in areas like general practice, where the Tories have created a GP workforce crisis.

“The Tories promised they would deliver seven-day services in the last parliament and they failed to deliver. In fact, for many people access to NHS services has got worse in recent years, with over one in four people now waiting a week or more to see or speak to a GP.

"David Cameron wasn’t straight with people at the election on the scale of the financial challenge facing the NHS. Until he can produce a funded plan to stop things getting worse, people won’t believe his promise of improvements.”