Sentence examples for increase opening hours from inspiring English sources

A proposal to increase opening hours to 5am was discussed but shelved by the council last year.

That may mean increasing opening hours of pharmacies and walk-in centres, providing more medical help in care homes or placing GPs in A&E units to take the pressure off emergency care staff.

Increasing opening hours could reduce recurrent stroke.

However, increasing opening hours for general practitioners surgeries/health centres could circumvent these barriers; some are now open out-with conventional working hours.

Keogh's team also argue that GP surgeries – under pressure to increase their opening hours – are critical in reducing the pressure on hospital emergency services.

In 2010, Mayor of London Boris Johnson put plans to increase weekend opening hours until 01 30 on hold because of the Tube upgrade plan.

"In America there has been an increase in the number of leisure centres increasing their opening hours to 24 hours a day and Wales is the worst part of the western world apart from the US," he added.

He said: "You are really trying to tell the chamber that there is no cost implications for increasing GP opening hours and re-negotiating, in fact, the GP contract?" He cited a report by the Wales Audit Office which last week said the NHS faced a tougher financial settlement in Wales than the rest of the UK.

Increased practice opening hours is one possibility but requires secondary care capacity in terms of access to investigations and specialist assessment if the full benefits in stroke prevention are to be seen.

We assessed the potential impact of increasing primary care opening hours to 8 am-8 pm daily (as in the polyclinic model of primary care 14) on reducing delay.

21 Increased GP practice opening hours, 22 community-based health clinics 23 and telephone consultations, 24 may prove effective at meeting need, particularly in London where access can be more challenging than in the rest of England.