MSP claims Out-of-Hours stats ‘doctored’
WERE patient figures used to justify killing off Clydesdale’s own Out-of-Hours GP service ‘doctored’?
That question has been put to NHS Lanarkshire by a local Member of the Scottish Parliament who claims that the health authority’s statistics used to justify the decision somehow ‘lost’ over 800 patients seeking medical help from the Lanark-based night-time and weekend service.
The 2013 statistics used during the public consultion exercise on the reform of county-wide Out-of-Hours GP cover have been seriously thrown into doubt by Claudia Beamish, the South of Scotland Labour MSP.
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