It took months before she was seen by a doctor
Rachel Dickinson's mum was the matriarch of the family. She always put others first and even when she was going through chemotherapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer, she was still there each Thursday to pick up her granddaughters from school.
Rachel, 49, believes that if her mother had been seen by a doctor earlier, she might still be here, or at least had longer to live - just like with the case of David Nash, the 26-year-old student who died on November 4, 2020, after remote GP consultations. Anne, a retired teacher from Littleborough, Rochdale, started to become unwell with an ongoing Urinary Tract Infection in April 2021.
Rachel's dad, Anthony, became his wife's carer, and fought for her to be treated - at a time when there were huge waiting lists amid a backlog of cases.But there was still no diagnosis and tests taken after seeing a urology specialist came back clear.By August, Anne was referred to the Clinical Assessment Unit at Rochdale Hospital and was then booked in for a scan on August 14 at Fairfield Hospital in Bury.
A week later, Anne collapsed at home and fell down the stairs. At this point, test results came back from the scan, showing there was a mass in her pelvis.But over the Bank Holiday weekend, Anne deteriorated minute by minute. She was unable to swallow the prescribed morphine tablets and was admitted back to Fairfield on Tuesday, August 31.They had arranged at-home hospice care and waited for her to return home three days later, but she never arrived.
In January, a coroner ruled it was likely he would have lived if he had been given a face-to-face appointment. "At the end of the day, the GPs are at fault. She had the classic signs of cancer - she ticked every box. But it was a postcode lottery trying to get an appointment." However, he admitted on social distancing guidance: "I’m not going to pretend that it was enforced rigidly."
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