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'I'm terrified I'm going to drop down dead'

Phil Bodmer & Emily Johnson
BBC News, Yorkshire
Reporting fromScarborough
Phil Bodmer/BBC A man with glasses in a beige turtleneck sits on a sofa. Phil Bodmer/BBC
Scott McKenna received a letter from his new GP stating he had heart failure - seven years after initial tests at a different practice

A man who was only told he was suffering from heart failure seven years after tests were first carried out has said he was left "terrified" by the news.

Scott McKenna was living in Peterborough in 2018 when he organised an appointment at his local GP surgery for tests after experiencing chest pains, shortness of breath and swelling in his legs.

He said he never heard back from the surgery but, after a move to Scarborough in 2023, he received a letter from his new GP about an annual check-up "due to his heart failure".

Mr McKenna, now 58, said it was a "shock" to discover his condition by letter - and especially so long after the original tests.

"Out of the blue, my partner said 'you've got a letter from the doctor'," he said.

"I was at work and told her to to open it - she said I'd got heart failure, which was a shock to find out that way."

He added: "If I'm supposed to have an annual check, where have the other six been":[]}