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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It seems not that there is no requirement for these hospitals....there is...it is just that every focus is on a virus that kills 0.1% of the population.(or maybe even less if the stats were relayed with clarity and honesty)
Everything has been put on hold.
My daughter should be having three monthly scans, but in 12 months she has had only one of these.
Why?
Well because of the pandemic.
She has seen her consultant only once since her surgery.....has had two phone appointments.
Let me ask....how do you palpate an abdomen by phone, how do you inspect a surgical incision by phone.
How can you determine whether cancer has come back using just a phone call.
The support for people who have been given a diagnosis of life limiting illness has been very badly neglected.
Almost as if these patients are disposable because they are not on the Covid agenda.
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Marge, there has got to be something wrong on the admin side of the N.H.S. when people like your daughter who have life a life threatening illness, are having the appointments cancelled whilst I have just received an appointment at the audiology department of Royal Blackburn Hospital for a hearing test review. I have not had one of these since 2005; Why now? we are being told that the N.H.S. is being overwhelmed.