Documents examining health reforms ask Tory activists if they agree or disagree with an annual cap on the number of appointments patients can book.
Among them were whether GPs should take greater responsibility for out of hours care in their area - something Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt addressed earlier this week - and if seeing a GP for a routine appointment in the evening or at the weekend is a luxury the country cannot afford.
Labour health spokesman Jamie Reed told the Independent on Sunday: "This paper, hidden away on their website, reveals the Tories' true agenda for the NHS.
After throwing the NHS open to ever more privatisation with a wasteful and damaging reorganisation, it seems the Tories want to go even further.
"It's shocking that they are considering limiting the number of times patients can see their GP - changing the fundamental principle in the NHS constitution that access to the NHS is based on clinical need.
"The Tories have already wasted £3bn on a top-down reorganisation of the NHS and overseen a crisis in A&E - now they are consulting their members on opening up the NHS to even more competition, and making it harder for patients to see GPs in the evenings and at weekends."
The Tories like wasting money and stealing money, They have only one brain cell between them and I think that brain cell needs overhauling. They are all Sociopaths who think they know everything and want the last word. The NHS belongs to US the people, not the Tories to do as they please with. The BMA/Doctors studied for their Degrees and it's up to them to tell the Tories that they are not the BMA. Personally I would give all the Tories and their ilk Endoscopy's to make sure their brains aren't at the wrong end and a good dose of Picolax wouldn't come amiss. All we hear from them everyday is verbal diahorrea anyway, why not clear them out altogether!!!
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