''My mum couldn't see her GP in lockdown - she died just days after cancer diagnosis'

Rachel Dickinson's mum was the matriarch of the family. She always put others first and even when she was going through chemotherapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer, she was still there each Thursday to pick up her granddaughters from school.

So when her mum, Anne Cragg, became unwell again amid the pandemic in 2021 and started to complain of horrific stomach pain, they knew something was very wrong, the Mirror reports.

GP practices across the country were forced to limit face-to-face appointments and despite Anne's deteriorating condition, it took months before she was seen by a doctor.

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What followed was multiple trips to A&E, hospital consultations, and discharges with pain relief medication until a scan showed Anne had a large cancerous mass in her pelvis.

Just days after the family was told that their 'supergran' was riddled with cancer, she died, all alone in a hospital bed.

Rachel, 49, believes that if her mother had been seen by a doctor earlier, she might still be here, or at least had longer to live - just like with the case of David Nash, the 26-year-old student who died on November 4, 2020, after remote GP consultations.

And it still haunts her, almost two years later, that she was robbed of precious time with her mother in the final stages of her life, as they abided by lockdown rules while Prime Minister Boris Johnson partied at No 10.

"The thought that Boris Johnson was partying, whilst I was staying away from my mum makes my blood boil," Rachel told the Mirror.

"I can never get that time back again. He believes he is above the law. He is laughing in the face of all of us."

Anne, a retired teacher from Littleborough,