[Guinness]

Yet again, I have to bang on about pen pushers....

My guess is that the people asked to be able to make appointments to see their own doctors rather than have to queue up from 7am ...pen pushers interpreted this as...

People do not care how long they have to wait as long as they see their own doctor.

(I just cannot believe that ordinary patients would ask for longer waiting times)

I've been with this lot since Patterson and Purnell had a surgery on Burnley Road where you walked in, took a numbered tag and waited your turn.

I have absolutely no idea who my doctor is (I lost track after Warburton went to Africa) and frankly I don't care...as long as when I'm ill I can see someone who will either cure me or put my mind at rest that I ain't a terminal case within a couple of days.