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The article is about the growing privatisation of GP healthcare.
It's a private GP practice, not NHS. Private GP healthcare is available to anybody who doesn't want to use the NHS.
We reported a large wasp nest in a bank. Turned out to be harmless Ivy Bees - they look very similar if a little darker than wasps.
There is an article about the growing privatisation of GP healthcare in this weekend's edition of the i newspaper. It gives as an example a private GP practice in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. This practice charges £85 for a phone consultation, £130 for a face-to-face consultation and £180 for a home visit.
There are diggers presently doing work of some kind on the Gatehouse development site
Dawlish railway station's car park is set to close this weekend as work gets underway on a new accessible footbridge . Read more... https://dawlish.nub.news/news/local-news/dawlish-station-car-park-to-close-as-work-on-new-accessible-footbridge-begins-153135?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email
Yesterday, Thursday, local councillor Martin Wrigley (Lib Dem) handed it to a full meeting of Devon County Council on behalf of local residents of Stockton Hill in the town. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/petition-calls-for-parking-ban-on-danger-hill-567193
Do you have any local news, photos, views, letters that you think our local paper might be interested in publishing? Well, along with the established way of sending stuff in (email - news@middevonadvertiser.co.uk or by phoning 07534889370) you can now speak face to face with one of their reporters, Ellen Grindley, at Dawlish Town Hall. The paper plans on having a reporter there for several ...
I also know people who are keeping money to one side just in case they need a hip or knee replacement or some such similar operation and can get it done in a matter of weeks/months privately rather than wait years to have it done on the NHS. They wouldn't normally dream of going private (I know them well) but when you are in pain......... Privatisation of our health service by stealth perhaps? ...
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