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The other night I tried to access my local out of hours service to be informed it was closed due to cuts. In my area if you require a doctor out of gp surgery hours you have to go to a and e. I arrived and the waiting room was overflowing on a wednesday evening. Not sure I want to see a friday :( hard times.

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That sounds worrying!

Makes a good argument for us to have rescue antibiotics at home though!

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