This has already been discussed …..
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1420438.html
…. and I’ll re-post here what I posted there.
////This is being trialled with some success and is working by practices sharing the workload as well as records.
//A total of 1,100 practices have subsequently signed up - one in eight - although only just over a quarter of those have actually got new projects up-and-running currently.
Nonetheless, the Conservatives have been so impressed by the success of the schemes that they now want to extend them and provide everyone with access to GP services seven days a week by 2020.//
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29424713
Mikey, //Just where are the staff going to come from, for this 7 day opening ?//
//Ministers have already announced an extra 5,000 GPs are being trained, while Labour said it would recruit an extra 8,000.//… so rather more ambitious.
Give it a chance.////
One could be forgiven for thinking that some people would relish its failure.