Law of supply and demand applies in NHS

doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7325.1370

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Tim Heywood, general practitioner (big.tim@lineone.net)

Hagley Surgery, Hagley DY9 0NH

EDITOR—So recognisable was Jeffrey's description of his wife's doctor's surgery that I read his end piece with discomfort, as I had a strong suspicion that his wife was a patient of mine.1

I was pleased to discover that it was not our service being described, but I was also interested because I had made the same comparisons between my surgery and the local veterinary surgery when my own cat had been unwell. I had found consolation in the argument that, as a …