A BOLTON MP has hit out at the Prime Minister after she urged GPs to take more strain to help the struggling NHS.

Yasmin Qureshi, Labour MP for Bolton South East, was angered after Theresa May said GP surgeries should make more effort to provide a seven-day service.

In response to the growing crisis at A and E departments, a Downing Street source said: “Most GPs do a fantastic job and have their patients’ interests firmly at heart. However, it is increasingly clear that a large number of surgeries are not providing access that patients need – and that patients are suffering as a result, because they are then forced to go to A&E to seek care. It’s also bad for hospitals, who then face additional pressure on their services.”

Ms Qureshi, who has the Royal Bolton Hospital in her constituency took to twitter to blast the comments.

She said: “Primary care system is already at breaking point. Such irresponsible comments only serve to push GP morale even lower.”