As some readers may know we are running a rolling set of polls looking at healthcare reform. You can see some of the previous polls here. And it would be great if you could spare just a couple of minutes to take part.

Today we would like to focus on healthcare availability.

From a UK perspective one of the things people find irritating about primary care (by which we mean family doctors, general practitioners[GPs] or PCPs) is that is seems only to be available when we are at work or our children are at school (ie not). It has been improving over the last few years but you can’t see your family doctor on Sunday afternoon pretty much anywhere.

So we were wondering if our readers help that it would be an improvement for healthcare provision in general if primary care was available 24/7 – rather like A&E (or ER for our US readers)?

There would be less waiting around and any conditions which needed to be seen early could be. It would take off much of the pressure on hospitals at the weekend so they could get on with their real jobs.

What do you think?

Why not take our poll below and have your say in the comments section below?

You may also be interested in how such a service might be offered in a restructured health service. Why not check out our previous blog on polyclinics?