Patients made 4.7million trips to A&E because they couldn't get advice or treatment from their GP

Patients made 4.7million trips to A&E because they couldn't get advice or treatment from their GP Up to 4.7 million visits to hospital accident and emergency units in the past year may have been due to people being unable to see their GP, an official study suggests.

Research by health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found almost one in five A&E patients surveyed had resorted to emergency departments because they couldn’t get advice or treatment elsewhere.

Of those, the research found, around one third (35 per cent) said there were no appointments available and 30 per cent said they were not able to get through to or access the service. The Daily Mail