A survey, conducted by The Information Standard, has unveiled that people in the North-East are not much active when it comes to visiting their GPs.

The survey report has unveiled that two in five people in the area have delayed visiting their GPs even when they have started witnessing symptoms.

This has led their condition to get worse. Those who visited late their GPs have received different recommendations. Over three in four have confessed that not visiting doctor on time has increased severity of their condition.

One in three have said that their GPs have told that they have got late in visiting them and should have come earlier. Not only this, one in six people have said that they have been prescribed stronger medication.

"People are delaying their GP visit for various reasons, but regardless of the reason why, our concern is that people are admitting to self-diagnosing and self-treating in the meantime", said Ann Robinson, Director of public awareness for The Information Standard.

At such time when people are doing self-diagnosing then it is very important that they should have an access to right kind of information.