Worries on GP out-of-hours service

More than two in five people have no idea how to contact their GP out-of-hours service, a poll suggests.

Poor out-of-hours care has been blamed for a rising tide of people turning up at A&E units.

The figures, released as part a national GP patients survey by NHS England, also showed that almost a third of patients who used an out-of-hours service thought it took too long to receive care.

One in six said their GP surgery was not open at a convenient time for them and three quarters wanted their practice to open on Saturdays for patients.

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