Would you pick up the phone to book an appointment with your doctor to ask about a sniffle? Or perhaps take yourself to A&E if you got a nasty cut?
New research for the consumer healthcare association PAGB shows that a quarter of us wouldn’t have an issue with heading to hospital or our GP with health issues we should probably be dealing with ourselves.
It seems a quarter of Brits are not confident they can even treat a headache effectively, 18 per cent don’t feel they know enough to soothe a cough, while 38 per cent are not sure how to tackle heartburn or indigestion. But despite the difficulty many experience getting GP appointments, fewer than half of us – just 44 per cent – would turn to a local pharmacy for health advice.
