cancer three months after her GP left a voicemail on her broken mobile phone asking her to come in for an internal examination.
Despite fears that Rachel Kennedy, 33, could be severely ill - her doctor never followed up the call. The single mum-of-two, from East Whitburn, had experienced abnormal bleeding in June 2020 but she wasn't referred to St John's hospital to have her symptoms fully investigated until five months later.
Rachel had asked for a GP appointment to discuss her symptoms at the height of the pandemic but had only been given a telephone consultation due to Covid.Two months later in August 2020 after experiencing another bleed, she was given an appointment with a doctor at Blackridge Health Centre in Bathgate.At her.
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