get face to face appointments. isla was a patient at an operose run surgery in nottinghamshire. antony says he had two phone appointments before he was able to get a face to face for his daughter. they weren t really keen on having isla into surgery and they tried to really say that they were all normal things that, you know, oh, she s probably got a bit of a blockage so you can have some something to move constipation. that s probably why she s got the stomach ache. they didn t really explain why she was going blue. antony says no tests were done and he was told to give his daughter calpol. when isla s symptoms got worse, he says he couldn t get another face to face appointment. every time we phoned the gp, it was a different doctor that we spoke to. we weren t absolutely sure whether it was the pandemic that had caused it, but we noticed that people that
getting the appointments that they need. the worst case scenario is they have a symptom, maybe a cough that hasn t gone away, maybe some bleeding from their bottom that needs investigation, and they don t see a gp and they don t get it investigated and the time that they re diagnosed is when they turn up to a&e with a cancer. this is antony barson, his partner rose and their two and a half year old daughter isla. she never used to cry. she was a really good baby. up until about a year old, 18 months, she wasjust a perfectly normal little girl. then in april last year, antony a paramedic realised something was wrong with his daughter. she would go blue for periods of time. we re talking aboutjust having a bath and noticing that her lips and extremities were turning blue. she d have. she was in pain, but she couldn t. she was too young to tell you. during the pandemic, nhs england advised that children under five with persistent symptoms should