They don’t have walk in clinics?
I kind of thought that is where the £188 GPs would be working this weekend.
They (we) do. A main factor in the greatly increased workload of NHS Direct (which is a phone-in advice service) in recent weeks has been the severe winter weather. This has prevented or deterred a lot of people from going to their local General Practice surgery, as they would normally do, and trying the phone-in service instead.