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13 May 2021 • 12:02am
Nearly every GP surgery in England is short of a family doctor and patients are still finding it very difficult to book face-to-face appointments
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SIR – I recently needed a district nurse to check something wrong with the leg of a 90-year-old. I phoned the surgery and was told to speak to a GP. For that I must phone first thing in the morning.
At 8.30am next morning I started dialling. On the 123rd call, I got through, to be told I was number six in the queue. By the time I finally spoke to a receptionist, no appointments were left for the morning. I would have to try again at 12 noon.
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SIR – The Brexit trade agreement secured by Boris Johnson is not the perfect deal that many of us dreamt of when we voted to leave the EU in 2016. But that was never going to happen – and, while the devil is in the detail, it appears to be much better than I had recently imagined.
I predict that our future relationship with the EU will be far more cooperative and mutually beneficial than it has been over the last 40 years. We were always the unwelcome party guest (even though we brought lots of presents) and we knew this, yet we kept returning in the hope that things would change.