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Mr Sissling insisted 94% of surgeries offer appointments at least twice a week after "normal hours".
GPs in England will no longer have to offer appointments lasting at least 10 minutes under changes agreed with the government.
Doctors have been told they will not need to offer appointments outside office hours and at the weekend if there is no demand for it, after the BMA expressed concern about forcing GPs to work on Saturdays.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "We live in a 24/7 society, and we need GPs to find new ways of working so they can offer appointments at times that suit hard-working people".
Ms Griffiths said the number of GP practices closing for half a day will be reduced by April next year, and more practices will be "required" to offer appointments early in the morning or towards the end of the day.
Discussed in The Atlantic, research shows that psychotherapists, for example, are more likely to offer appointments to middle-class white people than to middle-class African-Americans or working-class people of any race.
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Cathryn Turhan, the student union president, says: "Our counselling service is changing – it now offers appointments much more quickly and further support is offered on a session-by-session basis.
A total of 31% of GPs offered appointments during the "core" opening hours of 08 00 to 18 30 from Monday to Friday without closing for lunch last year.
I find that the rates at which traditional PMF and PMF STEM Finalists in the Class of 2014 received their first appointment offers were significantly different (p = 0.0315), and PMF STEM Finalists were initially offered appointments at higher rates than the PMF Finalists.
To that end, after quietly launching late last year, Toothpick offers appointments at nearly 2,000 dental practices in the UK, with customers booking more than 1,000 appointments per week, says the company.
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