Patients will be able to see their doctor on Saturdays and Sundays under plans to be set out by David Cameron today.
A pledge to force GPs to open their surgeries on seven days a week within five years is part of a wider package of measures to improve access to family doctors. Others could include 12-hour surgery opening, consultations and prescriptions by email and the right to register at more than one practice.
The “doorstep offer” on weekend doctors’ appointments comes after Ed Miliband put the NHS at the heart of Labour’s election campaign last week by pledging to use a mansion tax to boost health service coffers.
It comes on the third day of the Conservatives’ last conference before the election. In other