[Margaret Pilkington]

I asked for a home visit when my daughter was very ill and we got a telephone consultation instead......How is that any good? The doctor could not see her, check her BP, feel her pulse, look at her face to determine the levels of pain, check her skin to see if it was clammy...he had to rely on me for this information...luckily, I am trained to collate it. The upshot was she was carted off in an ambulance with flashing blue lights......if she had not got to hospital when she did, she would be dead now.
It can be as serious as that.