A woman in need of medical attention in Northern Ireland called a General Practitioner surgery over 100 times without getting through to a reception desk, it has emerged.
It comes as health services across the country continue to come under extreme pressure, with a number of medical practices announcing they would close in the coming months.
Sinn Fein MLA Padraig Delargy said that he sat with a patient this week trying to book a doctor's appointment, ringing exactly 154 times between them and unable to get through.
