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<p>The National Health Service has continued to provide urgent and emergency services
throughout the outbreak and has run the ‘Open for Business’ media campaign to encourage
people with potentially serious health issues, such as cancer, to continue to seek
medical advice and attend essential appointments.</p><p>Referrals for cancer treatment
from general practitioners (GPs) to hospitals continue and the NHS is working hard
to increase these to pre-COVID-19 levels. To assist this, technological solutions
are being implemented so that cancer patients can attended GP and specialist appointments
without the need to leave their homes, through the use of telephone or video consultations.</p>
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