£100m for GPs in A&E to weed out those not seriously ill announced in Budget
This is the best bit of the budget from my point of view. The story tells us:
GPs will be placed in A&E departments to turn away people who are not sufficiently ill as part of a £100 million effort to crack down on hospital overcrowding.
The measure, announced by Philip Hammond in the budget, follows a relentless increase in A&E admissions which at one stage this winter saw one in two hospitals issue emergency alerts indicating they were unable to cope.