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Patients “will be harmed” if they are forced to wait up to a month to see their GP, a top doctor has warned last night.
Dr Maureen Baker spoke out after a report said that Tory cuts would reduce funding to surgeries by £1.5billion, in real terms, by 2017.
The document – leaked to the Mirror before its release – also warned the growing and ageing population meant the number of appointments needed would rocket by 69 million a year to 409 million.
Experts fear the resulting backlog means patients with “sleeping killers”, such as cancer or lung disease, will give up on seeing their GP – only to be *diagnosed when it is too late.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-cuts-leaked-report-says-3338391
Dr Maureen Baker spoke out after a report said that Tory cuts would reduce funding to surgeries by £1.5billion, in real terms, by 2017.
The document – leaked to the Mirror before its release – also warned the growing and ageing population meant the number of appointments needed would rocket by 69 million a year to 409 million.
Experts fear the resulting backlog means patients with “sleeping killers”, such as cancer or lung disease, will give up on seeing their GP – only to be *diagnosed when it is too late.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-cuts-leaked-report-says-3338391