GPs are undermining to decline to see patients passed on to them by NHS 111 emergency call centre staff. They say they don't have sufficient energy for additional patients and won't be advised what to do by helpline staff who are not therapeutically prepared.

Plans in November to augment the helpline to guarantee patients can see or address a specialist rapidly to take weight off A&E units published by NHS therapeutic chief Professor Sir Bruce Keogh.

Surgeries that decline to co-work could be closed down. He needs call focus staff to book patients for an errand at their surgery or out-of-hours facility or organize a GP to telephone them over to offer counsel. Yet senior family specialists say surgeries are so occupied it is not possible adapt.

The helpline was taken off the previous spring as a one-stop administration furnishing therapeutic assistance to patients whose condition was not genuine enough for a 999 call.

Patients are made inquiries by a call focus specialist with no medicinal preparing who gives counsel or masterminds a GP arrangement or call. However the framework has been shambolic to the point that numerous patients have battled to get past, while others have doubted the consultation and headed off to A&E at any rate.