Scotland’s first walk-in GP clinic to open

Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre in Edinburgh was named as the first future walk-in site on Thursday.

Scotland’s first walk-in GP clinic could open within weeks, after it was announced that Edinburgh will host the first of 15 drop-in practices being piloted across the country.

The practice, based at the Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre, will operate eight hours a day, seven days a week, in an effort to ease the 8am rush.

However, GPs say it will have little impact and argue it’s not a good use of resources.

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