The Medical Director of SouthDoc says people without a GP are going too long with undiagnosed health conditions.
SouthDoc says patients are having to use the out of hours service as their main GP because they don't have their own.
Out of hours services don't have access to GP records and aren't able to make referrals to consultants and often have to refer patients to A&E.
Speaking to RedFM News, Medical Director of SouthDoc Dr. Gary Stack says if patients aren't registered with a GP, they can't get follow up appointments:
"If you end up having a suspicious finding, you need to know. If you found a lump that you're concerned about, the doctor finds that lump, the doctor has nobody to refer you back to the following week. So the investigation has to make a decision then, is this something that can safely be left or is it something we just have to refer on to A&E which is not the appropriate place for something that may not need to be dealt with there and then"
