SIR - Mike Foster MP was quoted in your article (February 1) as saying that GPs offer a public service and therefore should sometimes have to work hours that might be considered unsocial.
On that basis, would Mike Foster now launch a similar campaign for dentists, banks, teachers, social workers, local government officers, solicitors, barristers and even undertakers to offer non-urgent services at unsocial hours?
All these groups of workers should be expected, as GPs will be, to work the extra hours for no net increase in remuneration.
The Government, of which Mike Foster is a member, is determined to undermine general practice as we have known it and to alienate each and every GP in the county and nationwide. What do your readers think, I wonder?
DR D S BROWNRIDGE, Hon secretary and press officer, Worcestershire British Medical Association
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