NHS Safety Watchdog Sounds Alarm: Advice and Guidance System Linked to Missed Diagnoses and Patient Deaths

The NHS's Advice and Guidance system — designed to reduce unnecessary hospital visits — is instead causing cancer diagnoses to be missed and patients to die, a damning new investigation has found. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) identified that A+G services across England have "contributed to near misses and incidents of patient harm," including cases where GPs' requests for specialist input went unanswered for weeks. In one tragic case documented in the...