It depends on the patients who come through the surgery on that particular day. For some people, they can be seen in five minutes; for other people, it takes longer. It depends on the nature of the patient. GPs will have a good idea of the communities that they work in and the patients that they’re seeing during the course of that day. But the point is, the last thing we want to do is to funnel more and more people towards GPs. We say to people, ‘Choose well. Go and see a pharmacist first. If not, then go and see a community nurse or a GP practice nurse. Then, and only then, is the GP somebody to go and see.’

There are issues of consistency in GP services across Wales. That much is true. Some offer broader services than others, they offer longer hours than others, and that’s why it’s so important to work with the royal college and others to make sure that we see greater consistency in terms of service delivery in the future.