Experts say delayed or disrupted access to healthcare services during lockdowns has contributed to many people being diagnosed later, particularly with cancer.
During the pandemic Eva Menelaws spent time in palliative care.
But with the country in the grip of the pandemic, accessing healthcare had its challenges, as they realised when late one night they went to emergency for pain Eva was experiencing due to liver metastasis. "There are obviously factors that are not within palliative care's remit, but it becomes really clear when palliative care in the acute situation is required."Simon Menelaws remembers how hard it was not being able to be there with his wife to support her.
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