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Letters: The public has been bamboozled by the blurring of guidance and law


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SIR – Your recent leader and letters (May 25) drew attention to the multiple nonsenses emanating from Whitehall – particularly the ruling on amateur choirs. Yesterday there was also further confusion over travel rules.
What the public needs is a guide on which of the Government’s pronouncements are merely advice and which have the force of law.
I fear that we have become so supine during the pandemic and the lockdowns that we are losing the confidence to trust our own judgment.
Edward Sharp
 
SIR – The suggestion that our freedoms will be curtailed beyond June 21 (“Vaccine not enough to avoid self-isolating”, report, May 25) has nothing to do with protection from the virus and everything to do with extending control over us. ....

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Letters: The tedious torture of trying to get an appointment to see the doctor


13 May 2021 • 12:02am
Nearly every GP surgery in England is short of a family doctor and patients are still finding it very difficult to book face-to-face appointments
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SIR – I recently needed a district nurse to check something wrong with the leg of a 90-year-old. I phoned the surgery and was told to speak to a GP. For that I must phone first thing in the morning.
At 8.30am next morning I started dialling. On the 123rd call, I got through, to be told I was number six in the queue. By the time I finally spoke to a receptionist, no appointments were left for the morning. I would have to try again at 12 noon. ....

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