Sections of the press are quick to decry "benefit scroungers" but manipulating surgery hours in order to qualify for the maximum payments is also cheating, surely?
Until we moved to an extended house, my dad's patients would come to our front door, and our sitting room doubled as a waiting room during surgery hours.
It is estimated that doctors are collectively seeing around 116,000 suspect cases a month, which is eating up close to a million surgery hours each year.