GPs face deluge of patients who say they need charity handouts for their families to survive on rations
Hungry families are pleading with doctors to give them the nod to use food banks.
GP surgeries are said to be at breaking point with queues of desperate patients booking appointments to claim vouchers.
Doctors – along with social workers, health visitors and social organisations – are allowed to refer people who need rations.
Experts warned yesterday that the scramble is the latest sign of a “public health emergency” as hard-up families struggle to put food on the table.
And they say the rising number of those seeking food handouts is stretching resources to the limit.
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