A five-year plan to give patients in Fenland a right to see their GP within a week or 24 hours if in urgent need will be in the Liberal Democrat General Election manifesto the party has announced. David Chalmers, who is representing the party in the North East Cambridgeshire ward, alleged: “This Conservative government had “abandoned local health services” and called for a ‘fair deal for this community’s patients’.” Last year 1,113,854 appointments in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire took longer than two weeks to happen, equating to 17.8% of appointments. This included a staggering 347,849 whic…
