Irfan Malik, a GP in Sherwood, said he feared for patient safety – and was having to advise people to consider private healthcare because accessing services was becoming so difficult, reports the British Medical Association.
Dr Malik was talking to former Nottingham Post Health Correspondent Peter Blackburn, who now works for the BMA. Doctors have raised concerns that the situation is being driven by stretched NHS funding, limited workforce and the mounting backlog rather than in the pursuit of improved patient care.
Nottinghamshire GPs have raised concerns about patient safety and the emergence of a two-tier healthcare system after the introduction of a new virtual triage system, that has reduced the number of patients able to access specialist neurology services.
