The survey discovered that no practices are accepting new NHS patients, more practices have opted to only take private patients, and concerns about this represent around a third of all enquiries it receives.
The organisation, set up to hear the views of people across the county and feed them back to health and social care leaders to help shape services, decided to take another look at the issue.
Its team contacted around fifty practices selected at random but drawn from different council areas across the county. Healthwatch wanted to gather evidence for the Government’s Health and Social Care Select Committee to give a snapshot of the issues people are being faced.
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