Ministers are not suggesting that GP surgeries open all hours over weekends to sort out routine issues, but that the workload of urgent cases is more evenly distributed.
The Health Secretary is one of the big winners from the Conservative election campaign – and is now a heavyweight politician of the first rank.
On polling day, we honour the unknown heroes of this government – the Special Advisers, without whom little of what has been done would have been done.
Doctors need a moratorium on change to let them catch their breath. But with votes to win, the urge to make unrealisable promises is too great to resist.
The current format of the service is no longer meeting the demands on it – a truth that neither the Government nor its critics are facing up to.