- because they were reluctant to be treated during the pandemic, according to a new report.
The report by Healthwatch York also found that workloads on York GPs have continued to increase after the pandemic, with patients growing frustrated at long waits caused by the high demand.
One anonymous GP, quoted in the September interim report to explore access to GP services in York, said they continue to treat seriously unwell people who did not seek help during the pandemic.
Another has experienced “people sitting on cancers” and being diagnosed late.
“That has been stressful and sad,” they said. “We know a lot of our patients haven’t been coming in with certain symptoms. And in the last few months we’ve had quite a big influx of these patients who’ve come in with a 10-month history of this… haven’t come ’cause [sic] they didn’t want to put a burden on the NHS. And actually have gone on to have pretty bad, if not terminal diagnoses.”
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York and North Yorkshire’s mayor has said he is ‘determined’ to get a half-hourly train between Scarborough and York.
