Doctors have slammed an idea designed to send Brits to their GP this winter - for a doctor’s note discount off their energy bills. As inflation surges and the cost-of-living crisis bites ever deeper, The Daily Mirror reports the idea is one of several drawn up by Treasury officials to cut bills this winter - and the new prime minister may choose to implement it.
But doctors have kicked back at the idea. Dr David Wrigley, of doctors' union the BMA, said: "At a time when GPs are already overwhelmed with the greatest workforce crisis and longest waiting lists in memory, this addition to their workload is totally unacceptable.
"It beggars belief that Government ministers think it is appropriate to suggest GPs undertake this work. In these next few months GPs already have to worry about delivering the Covid and flu vaccination programmes that will be necessary to see the NHS through the winter, on top of their daily crushing workload and the enormous Covid backlog we now see.
