Where does your out-of-hours doctor come from?

I cannot make any sense of it all. How can two GPs be expected to provide professional out-of-hours medical cover for an entire county? It’s been reported that this is sometimes the level of cover provided in Suffolk. When my mother-in-law was dying last year, we called the out-of-hours emergency number and were surprised when she was visited at her home in Cambridgeshire by a doctor from...
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