The poll also suggested a shocking 7 per cent of people have attempted a DIY removal of a suspicious mole themselves at home over fears of being unable to see a family doctor
7% of people polled also admitted to attempting a DIY mole removal at home. READ MORE: New drug offers hope for thousands of men with prostate cancerOne in eight people in England have ignored a suspicious lump or mole because they thought it would take too long to see a GP about it, a poll suggests.
Brits were also asked if they had taken any special actions over potential cancer symptoms like lumps or a suspicious mole because they thought it would take too long to see a GP. Advertisement Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: 'It's shocking to see how badly people's faith in their local health services has been broken by this Conservative Government - to the extent that people are now putting their own health at risk by ignoring possible cancer symptoms.
'We share our patients' frustrations and worries when they find it difficult to access our services, but we no longer have enough GPs to meet demand. Patients have repeatedly reported struggling to access their GP with some reporting a 'Glastonbury-esque' rush to call practices in the morning. The latest NHS data shows that only 67.9 per cent of appointments were held face-to-face in August, the lowest figure this year. It is far below the pre-pandemic norms when some 80 per cent of consultations were held face-to-face.Family doctors, who now work an average of three days a week, pocket six-figure salaries, on average.
The result is millions of patients being rushed through appointments, in scenes that have been compared to 'goods on a factory conveyor belt'.Ministers have silently binned a promise to hire 6,000 more GPs, which was a major part of Boris Johnson's election-winning manifesto.But the number of fully qualified GPs, working the full-time equivalent of 37.5 hours on average a week, has shrunk to around 27,300, data shows.
NHS figures on cancer waiting times showed that just six in ten cancer patients were seen within the two-month target. NHS guidelines state 85 per cent of cancer patients should be seen within this time-frame. This target has not been met nationally since December 2015
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