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Angry Scots patients demand GPs restart face-to-face appointments amid delayed diagnosis fears
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dailyrecord.co.ukpatients are demanding government action as GPs are still refusing to give face-to-face appointments. Surgeries have been virtually sealed shut from the public for 18 months following the Covid-19 crisis.
And despite the country moving out of lockdown, doctors are still preferring to diagnose patients over the phone. It has led to fears that people’s health is being put at risk unnecessarily.Patients unable to get an appointment say they have developed more serious symptoms.Fiona Weir, 43, from Castlemilk, Glasgow, said she is afraid a delayed skin cancer diagnosis has put her life at risk.And while she has had treatment for a malignant melanoma, she now faces years of scans and tests to ensure the cancer has not spread or returned.She.
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