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November 11th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The review published by health watchdog Monitor showed 53 of 238 clinics have been closed since 2010 and more are under the threat of shutting down.
Monitor said the closures risked “increasing health inequalities” among patients, especially those who have difficulties accessing general practitioners during regular hours.
Critics say the closures only add pressure to other NHS services, including the already strained A&E departments.
“NHS walk-in centers are popular with patients and an important means of relieving pressure on A&E. When hospitals are under so much pressure, it makes no sense to close so many walk-in centers,” said shadow health secretary Andy Burnham.
“The decision to dismantle them is one of this Government’s worst acts of vandalism and patients are paying the price,” he added.
Furthermore, the British Medical Association has criticized the mass closure, saying a lot of money was wasted in the first place setting up dozens of walk-in centers to later close the clinics down.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said, “There is simply no excuse for this mass closure, which is just another symptom of the unprecedented and unmanageable financial squeeze that is being placed on the NHS at the expense of patients.”
Meanwhile, the College of Emergency Medicine say the NHS may be facing “its worst winter yet” as there are mounting pressures on services and widespread shortages of consultants.
The latest figures show that there has been a 44 percent increase of patients waiting more than four hours in A&E between April and October of this year compared to the same period in 2011.
This comes ahead of a report to be published by NHS medical director, Professor Bruce Keogh, in which he will call for radical changes to the way the NHS provides urgent and emergency care, aimed at tackling an “inexorable climb” in A&E attendances.
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