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Ours only has an appt system that goes 14 days ahead, so unless you know you’ll need a Dr a fortnight before you’re poorly, you sometimes have to wait a month. but you cant make an appointment for a month’s time because the book only runs two weeks ahead……… confused? yep me too,.
My gp says i need to see her in 3 months time, it means that after 2 months and two weeks i have to ring for an appointment, and not before then! but when i do that there are no appointments left,
at one point it took me 6 months to get an appointment because of the two week appt book rule, when i eventually saw the gp i was told off for leaving it so long.erm………… she didnt understand the two week appointment book rule didnt work
And anyways as i keep telling them all,….. I’m not ill i’m disabled and sitting among the great unwashed for hours isn’t my idea of fun when i have a delicate immune system.I have been lucky that recently i found it so easy to get a DR appointment however do not get me started at how long i have to wait when i get there to actually get in the dam room to see him, luckily my GP Surgery will only let you see your named Dr so it has been the same one now for the last x amount of years
i think that`s good for continuity of care but sometimes you can be waiting 2/3 hours just to be seen when your there and no its not joke its serious tomorrow i shall be visiting the place again and i dare say i will be there till at least 2 pm its a good job i have a day off
increasing patient list and lack of doctors means in populated areas many have difficulty seeing a doctor. added paperwork for them isn’t helping plus a 9-5 5 day week attitude from many doctors. we have to realise all NHS doctors are self employed and work to a contract with health authorities. thus like anybody they do not want to be over worked . anti social hours etc.
my last doctor(s) was around 2 week wait unless and emergency. my new doctor(s) is approx a week but you can ask you see same doctor. cannot fault many doctors as hard working and good at job. sadly situation will get worse as population increases outpaces doctor staffing levels. hence we import most of nursing and doctors these days from anywhere we can get them. sadly this is impacting on national health care as standards are falling and language issues are raised.
Sadly this situation isn’t going to get any better any time soon. Jeremy Hunt & the conservative government are seeing to that!
Now to top it all it is proposed to scrap the NHS bursary for student nurses so tell me … Who is going to want to go into the NHS as a career as a doctor or a nurse?
While they were all sat at home Christmas day with their familes wo do thet think staffed hospitals …. hey it wasn’t the fairies !!!!
My solution ….
1.Scrap hospitals foundation status … it just passes the butt from the government to the individual hospital – The trust then becomes responsible for their own finaces …. Healthcare in the public sector is NOT a business.2. Sack all the overpaid graduate mangaers with absolutely no clinical experience & use the money saved to employ front line staff .
3. Start charging those that aren’t actually entitled to free NHS healthcare.
(it’s supposed to happen but rarely does).4. Most importantly ….. bring back Matron & the student nurse system of the pre 80’s where you were actually employed to learn on the job.
If only it was that simple eh ?
As for the humble GP …. well below a day in the life of
The Guardian
22 January at 14:11 ·‘Thirty-eight face-to-face consultations, 11 telephone calls, one home visit, 30 medication queries, 76 prescriptions to sign, two referrals to dictate, 55 lab results and 24 clinic letters to read and file – that’s roughly an average day.’ #ThisIsTheNHS
They do diddly squat eh ?? ….. * jumps of soap box & goes back to cooking lunch*
Totally agree Arc!
get rid of the managers (and their bonuses) and allow the NHS to do its job rather than it being a numbers game.
the “old” system worked, when is anyone “up there” going to see that the “new improved” system isnt?
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