Urgent referrals rejected for one in three GPs during COVID-19 outbreak

More than three quarters of GPs fear delays to care because of COVID-19 will harm patients, with one in three reporting that urgent referrals have been rejected during the pandemic, a GPonline poll shows.

by Emma Bower

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