However, as is noted in the literature, some patients, with a history of cancer symptoms delay visiting their GP.
Men with breast cancer often delay visiting their GP between 6 and 9 months (Goss et al, 1999).
The lack of legal entitlement also means that IMs frequently delay visiting health services until their illness reach a serious stage.
Financial barriers also had an impact on the likelihood of regular dental visiting, with lower income individuals more likely to avoid or delay visiting a dentist until symptoms or problems arose [ 4, 14, 15].
This may reflect the ability of higher income earners to pay for comprehensive dental care, while those with low incomes may delay visiting a dentist until they experience dental problems [ 4].
Compared to those who were born between 1965 and 1969, older cohorts were less likely, and those who were born between 1970 and 1984 were more likely to avoid or delay visiting because of cost.
Individuals from lower income households are likely to lack sufficient economic resources to obtain timely and comprehensive dental care and may avoid or delay visiting a dentist until they experience dental problems or pain [ 11, 15, 19, 22].
The results of the Age-Period model indicate that people aged less than 25 and those 45 years and over were less likely to avoid or delay visiting a dentist because of cost than the reference category of 30 34 year-olds (with Odds ratios ranging from 0.10 for 80 84 year olds to 0.79 for 20 24 year olds).
Shoppers had delayed visits to the high street early in the month as they anticipated pre-Christmas discounts before severe weather in the days leading up to December 25 hampered a hoped-for late surge.
She said: "The combination of the emphasis by retailers to drive online sales, and the discounting introduced by retailers early on in the month, meant that shoppers delayed visits to retail destinations until as late as possible which adversely affected footfall early in on the month.
