A&E emergency admissions are "at a record low" as patients are still staying away during the coronavirus lockdown, new figures show.
Emergency admissions to A&E departments at hospitals in England also showed a fall last month, down 27 per cent from 547,382 in May 2019 to 398,407 in May 2020. Family doctors made 79,573 urgent referrals in England in April - down from 199,217 in the same month last year. NHS England said: “Many people have put off seeing their GP for possible symptoms due to fear of catching the virus or not wanting to burden staff.”In an attempt to deliver treatment to sick Brits near their homes, chemo buses are now travelling across England.
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