Two local GPs spent a weekend keeping Glastonbury-goers safe in the sun.
Dr Jonathan Cope, managing partner at Beacon Medical Group, and his wife, Dr Helen Frow, Beacon’s dermatology expert, spent four days volunteering at the country’s largest and most popular music festival, Glastonbury.
The husband and wife doctor duo spent the weekend promoting skin cancer awareness and offering free mole checks for all festival goers. Over 20 referrals to GPs were made for people who presented potential skin cancers.
Dr Cope said: “The service was really well used, we saw hundreds of people across the course of the weekend providing free use of good quality sunscreen through daylight hours and free mole checks. This is a service that has been provided by specialist dermatologists for many years and is highly valued by those who use it, often every year.”
Glastonbury 2017 was the 6th time the couple have provided such services at the internationally acclaimed festival.
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