State of the Nation - identifying our members needs and advocating for change

I will certainly be participating in the survey. For me the ludicrously of every surgeon going on leave over Christmas still rankles. Not that I think they don't deserve leave but even my husband's work cannot have no one on over the Christmas period, except for public holidays. And the difficulty of getting appointments for ultrasounds and biopsies in my area is a bugbear too. I am paying for it but I still can't get in fast enough. The other issue I have is lack of information from my GP. I was left on Christmas Eve with a diagnosis of breast cancer a referral letter for a surgeon (also faxed through) and nothing else, no contact numbers for information, no websites, no support contact, no information sheets, nothing.
thank goodness I found this site a few days later by googling. 
There really needs to be support information handed out at diagnosis.