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"I have to do the chasing, they never ring me, I've explained my situation, I'm really struggling and I just get fobbed off," he said.

She said she felt "fobbed off" when she told doctors about her constipation and rectal bleeding.

However, the parent told BBC Scotland News they felt “fobbed off” by the local authority – and that other parents had not been informed of the breach.

The victims commissioner for England and Wales said she often hears of victims being "ignored or fobbed off" by police forces.

The 34-year-old was diagnosed after several years of "being fobbed off" and had her son Arthur in December.