'This is huge and unsafe pressure for frontline health professionals involved.'
There will be delays to GP services across Northern Ireland due to a huge surge in calls over the weekend, the chair of the NI GP Committee has warned.
Speaking about overnight pressures on out of hours GP services this weekend, Alan Stout, chair of BMA’s Northern Ireland general practitioners committee, said: “There will be significant delays and difficulties today in practices across Northern Ireland due to a higher than usual volume of calls to out of hours GP services.
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