“People don’t tend to wait things out as much as they previously did,” says Dr Zak Waqar-Uddin, an NHS GP in Middlesbrough.

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A third (33.3%) of GP appointments in England in June were carried out either over the phone or online, the highest proportion since the pandemic. The figure is up from 30.9% a year earlier in June ...