If this is true and GPs are suspending normal service to administer the vaccine then the govt's own rhetoric about saving the NHS cannot be true.
Surely depriving people of access to GPs will simply put more presure on A&E and cause what might be complex but treatable issues to be left untreated for three months with a more serious consequential effect on the NHS down the line.
Aside from the generality, I have a personal interest in this as my father's prostate cancer has returned in a serious way and he is due to start treatment this month. I will be keeping a close eye from a (state imposed, criminally sanctioned, fundamental freedom annulling) distance.
Our GPs have been effectively closed since March.
Its impossible to get in through the door and certainly to see a doctor.
They'll do a few phone consultations and nothing else.
I guess it depends on where you are, I think my father has had telephone consultations for the most-part, but he has also been out this week for blood tests for cancer and blood pressure checks. He's optimistic as he always has been about the cancer outlook, which will hopefully stand him in good stead.
Incidentally, he has been told the treatment envisaged will in some manner up his resistance to the virus (his words, I don't know what that means scientifically).
All I can hope is that where he lives (I won't say where as it's not relevant to this) the NHS is coping and his care won't vanish due to the latest/next edict from Herr Obengruppenfurher Hancock about how we need to save the NHS. I could be incredibly cynical here, but I'll leave that until I have had a glass of wine later. Thank god I don't use Twitter...
They cancelled all "non essential" in most of Wales months ago.
I've got relatives who due to timing having had annual blood tests for coming up to 2 years now.
I freely admit the NHS in Wales is and always has been significantly worse than England but it could easily happen anywhere.
