Thanks Doc for speaking out.. in my job im seeing the after effects of lockdown within the community ... self harming, mental health and serious undiagnosed illnesses such as cancers.. we need the surgeries open for business.. the lockdown was supposed to be saving people yet all those I'm dealing with are now needing long terms services mainly due to isolation, mental health & lack of exercise.. this is just so wrong in so many ways
One of my more important direct debits is now my private health care. I've lost confidence in the NHS over the way they've prioritised Covid over all other illnesses.
as a surgical registrar we have done everything we possibly can to operate as much as possible , myself and my colleagues are desperate to get back to regular full daily operating lists, not only most importantly for the benefit of patients but also because after a nearly a year or more of forced inactivity as in any job you will lose skills and techniques.
I observed a young man Come into our local surgery and enquired why his 80 year old mother could not come into the surgery to make an appointment,he was told she had to go on line regardless of the fact she didn’t own a smart phone or computer
Saw this coming many moons ago. That's what happens when people, en masse, thoughtlessly embrace trendy electronics. The latter have disempowered us, not empowered us.
£2000.00 quid a week,bungs from big pharma and no weekend or bank holiday work,g.p.'s dont give a f-uck about the patients anymore and they ensure their surgery receptions are manned by the rudest,most obstructive gestapo like creatures to guard them from their patients.
Even if they agreed to see us,, we'd still get shafted. The surgeries are clogged with people with chronic conditions like diabetes who aren't necessarily in urgent need of seeing the doctor, but go to the top of the triage list due to their conditions.
If any group of people need to have their pay cut it should be Doctors. They should hang their heads in shame. All the Doctors in my practice only work part-time anyway.
My auntie has just quit her job at a g.p surgery. She thinks their behaviour is disgusting. Most of the doctors there do between 5-8 'online consultations', have all received massive bonuses and are complaining about being over worked
My aunt, who sadly passed away last month, was unable to get an appointment with her GP back in February when she became seriously ill. It was thanks to her boyfriend who had to contact his own private doctor to see her. And he got her into hospital, sadly it was too late.
@@keithmartin1328 most of these g.p.'s only work 2 or 3 days at the nhs surgeries and the rest of the week treating their private patients usually using the facilities of the nhs to do it. a bunch of money grabbing crooks now.
I work in the ambulance control room and typically take a hundred emergency calls in a twelve-hour shift. Many are non-emergencies like people calling for their drunk friend who needs a lift home etc. Morale has never been lower.
Collateral damage my wife, my younger brother and my next door neighbour, all in their sixties and all suffered premature deaths in 2020 because of the virtual shutdown of the NHS.
So sorry for your loss, I am at my friends funeral tomorrow, died sadly ten days after her vaccine . She had covid in February without symptoms. She was poorly but not terminally ill.
It's horrible, mate. All sacrificed at the altar of Covid. When you point out the tragic deaths caused as a direct result of the restrictions, all you'll get is a blank stare from the lockdown supporters. Their fake compassion is nauseating.
Can someone explain why our GPS are hiding under their desks? Front line staff yeah right its easier getting my dog in the vet than getting to see a doctor.. scandalous!!
We are short several thousand GPs in this country but demand for primary care service is increasing. This was a problem even prior to the pandemic but it has been catalysed by the events of the past 18 months. Most things do not actually need a face to face appointment. Some people prefer not to have to come in for a simple prescription renewal or urine infection. From the patients perspective it is much quicker and instead of waiting in a car park/waiting room they can go about their day whilst waiting for a call. From the GPs perspective it is much quicker also, meaning they have more time for the patients that are more complex. There are of course those people that feel like they 'need to be seen' but this should really be at the doctors discretion and based on clinical need, not based on what someone 'wants' - in the same way that they wouldn't prescribe an antibiotic just because a patient felt like they needed them. But I understand how this can create some confusion that GPs are ignoring their patients. An example: a 55 year old woman calls her GP because she's complainig of bleeding from down below and she is losing weight. The GP should see this person face to face, because she might have cancer right? Wrong. This woman meets criteria for an urgent referral to the hospital (to be seen within 2 weeks) for a pelvic ultrasound to check for uterine cancer. Would bringing her in to the surgery and feeling her tummy and doing an intimate examination of her lady parts change anything? No, because either way she still needs an urgent referral to the hospital for an ultrasound. By managing problems such as this and many others remotely it enables the GP to overall be able to help MORE of their patients, in time where demand is high and there are limited resources. The number of GP consultations overall (whether that be face to face, online, phone etc) is higher now than it was pre-pandemic. If you make face to face the default it will make it take LONGER for people to be able to access their GP. Clueless politicians and journos who know nothing about medicine should stay out of telling doctors how to treat their patients.
Only if the funding for care is restricted to citizens of this country and others self pay. Last Friday the NHSE sent out a letter to GPs to see their patients face to face. In there it also reminded the GPs to stop checking their new patient for their eligibility re access to NZhS care. The have to register anyone who request it!! Madness - no wonder it is impossible even to have a phone consultation!!
“I have Covid symptoms”. “Stay at home and get back to us in 7 days if not feeling better” “You mean let the virus take hold without treatment” “That’s right, nothing we can do until you are a hospital case”. This is your NHS folks.
Yea its Bonkers surely had doctors seen more Covid Patience earlier far less would have died rather than Self Isolate and hope for the best. GPs are suppose to be first line of defence against serious illness and that has been shambolic these past year.
go to A&E and tell them your GP refuses to see you. Eventually the A&E ppl will raise a ruckus with the physicians' overseers and they;'ll put their foot down. ps we were ALWAYS taught that you canNOT diagnose over the phone....we can be charged with MALPRACTICE.. The client ALWAYS forgets something important, or doesn't know WHAT is important. And i'm a VETERINARIAN.
Don't go to hospital, you will die. Stay in bed with cool drinks, no food, vitamin D tablets and a week later you'll be fine. My son proves it, he's young but his mate's mother isn't and same story. Use a ouija board to ask what went wrong in hospital. So many alternatives to chose from, such as treating as for covid when it could have been heart attack, cancer, etc all the period killers too they all disappeared for covid???
GP receptionists are not supposed to "triage" patients, although apparently they frequently do and expect to discuss your medical condition in front of others in the queue. GPs are now run like call centres, they are "gate keepers" to the services you need. A lot of what GPs do could be replaced by an algorithm, and some of them seem to be so lacking in humanity I assumed they were secretly replaced by robots long ago.
If that’s the case let’s get rid of this tier snd have direct access to hospital doctors/specialists supported by a cheaper medical call centre in India
I'm surprised you even got through. I was told to ring at 0800. I did. It went straight to a recorded message saying their were no appointment slots left. I guess a hundred people must have called before me at 0759.
My friend had an x-ray two months ago and is still waiting for the results. She has rung the GP surgery many times and every time is given the same brushoff. It is disgusting.
we were ALWAYS taught to NEVER diagnose over the phone. The patient always forgets or doesn't know to mention something important. Also, you can't listen to someone's heart or take their Blood Pressure or blood for Cholesterol over the phone....and those are the number one causes of death EVERYWHERE.
This is an absolute disgrace I refuse point blank to send a photo to my doctor. My surgery is in a small village in Scotland and its the same problem here paid plenty but doing nothing. Diagnosing someone starts from the minute you SEE them walk in the door, how the walk, colour of skin etc. Its time people take a stance about this and complain in writing to MPs
My lovely brother died in 2020 at aged 60 because he couldn't go to the Doctors. I truly feel sorry for those who lost their lives to Covid and for their loved ones but at the same time there are so many of us who are without loved ones today because of these idiotic decisions.
I'm sorry for your loss. You're right, it's mind blowing that the past 15 months has only been about covid, a virus that most people won't even know they had, while mental health issues and other diseases get ignored.
Phone any Drs in the Uk and you will get nearly 4 minutes of covid Covid Covid, do you really need the Dr or hospital, don’t call regarding prescriptions, don’t get abusive with us mate , Covid Covid Covid Your 10th in the queue and Sorry we have no appointments this week. Easier to call a vet .
And then palmed off to 111, who then palm off most of their (non-emergency) call onto the 999 ambulance service. The result: people in genuine need (strokes, chest pain etc) suffer delays due to the wasted ambulances sent to 'depressed' students, uninjured people who want picking up, twenty-five-year olds with abdo pain etc.
I had this experience last week. I called the GP's surgery and the receptionist said I would need to tell her what was wrong and if it sounded serious she would get a nurse to call me back. I said its personal and I'd rather not tell her what was wrong and she replied that she couldn't get me a call back in that case. I asked "I have doctor - patient confidentiality, do I now need to have receptionist - patient confidentiality?" Short answer is you have no choice but to tell the receptionist your personal medical problem/history and hope she deems it worthy to have a nurse (not a doctor) call you back.
I really don't like the idea that you have to tell a receptionist about your personal ailments/ illness etc, also they are not qualified medically to know whether a doctor should see or speak to you.
Just say something completely ludicrous they actually have no knowledge about but sounds serious, say you have had past problems with an infection called something so complex they couldn’t actually even have a chance of spelling in google, they are goons and don’t know fuck all, if I get through at bang on 8 I can get a call back, I’m happy enough with a phone call but I know most older folk are not and it’s not fair.
Yes I believe this experience is all too common now, I read an article recently were someone died as a result of not being able to get past the receptionist, who deemed the problem unimportant. This situation needs to be addressed.
Two weeks ago I had a private Osteopath appointment.... I casually mentioned that I hadnt been feeling well.... she offered to check my blood pressure.... Afterwards as a result of the reading she advised me to see my Doctor. I duly rang and was asked by the Receptionist. 'Don't you have a blood pressure monitor like most other people??' I replied that I did not and she reluctantly made an appointment for two weeks time.. 🙄 I could be dead for all they care.... Meanwhile. Y lovely Osteopath has rang me to find out how I am....
Last time I saw my doctor/nurse was December 2019 with no prospect of a face to face till October 2021. In normal times I am supposed to see them once very six months. My wife is a receptionist and absolutely hates the triage system she is obliged to administer. The current and evolving system stinks and I really do wonder whether there is a conscious decision to thin out the population!
I tore my Achilles last November, I couldn't get an xray at the hospital because it's not Covid related. 7 months later, the tear is still there, so I have to have physiotherapy...over video call 🙄🙄 The collapse of the NHS will be inevitable due to all the people suing them, due to their negligence.
I work for it. I agree with you. Not fit for purpose anymore. When it does collapse, it won't just be because of claims; it'll be the inevitable result of decades of mismanagement, financial incompetence and abuse of the system.
GP surgeries became more like businesses a long time ago They got a big pay boost based on hitting vaccination targets. Which begs the question, why should they need financial incentives simply to do the job they are already paid to do? How can anyone be surprised people who are suspicious of vaccines when that is the case?
big pharma has the nhs,the weaker g.p's and the surgeries by the ba-lls,they are terrified to make a decision based on their own judgement for fear of that other bunch of crooks the legal trade. forget all this bo-llocks about the sainted nhs,its a business now,ask your surgery who owns them and how many of their g.p.'s are still employed by the nhs or by the company that owns the surgery. you don't own the nhs anymore brits you just pay for it.
@@chanelfitzgerald Yes Chanel, my wife is one of those engaged with the vaccination process. Quite literally the doctor(s) stands there doing to all intents and purposes absolutely nothing! One particular doctor signs up to every vaccine shift going and I would think conservatively he will be raking in a minimum of £900 for 12 hours work. Some weeks possibly more.
I was amazed when recently the NHS sent a letter to all GPs saying (amongst other matters) that should a patient turn up at the surgery without an appointment they should be shown how to get an appointment online or using an app. This shows a complete lack of appreciation of the problem. Not everyone has a mobile phone or indeed access to the internet and/or some people do not have the skills or ability to go online and book an appointment. There was a letter in the DT last week from someone saying they had 123 attempts to contact their GP surgery to book an appointment. In any other "industry" the consumer could switch to another provider and posting on social media or platforms such as tripadvisor would cause the situation to be addressed immediately.
Probably whipper snapper making the policies without understanding of the customer base (ie patients). Have seen how much my elder neighbours with chronic health have suffered. They have a landline and nothing else. App? Online? 🤔🤔 they would not know what that is. This is pure age discrimination and neglect of a section of society
My girlfriend's uncle suddenly passed away from a heart attack last week as he sat watching TV with his wife. Well, by sudden... I mean his doctor told them he was suffering an asthma attack...continuously, for 3 weeks until his heart attack. Can't help but wonder now if had he been seen by his GP and booked in for a scan, maybe he would be alive now.
Very sorry to here this, and yes if he'd been seen and assessed properly he would have probably only needed a stent incerted, just like my brother would have needed. Your uncle and my brother both died needlessly.
That phone diagnosis was happening before lockdown & the receptionists have been loudly demanding what yr symptoms are either on the phone when you ring for appointment or in the surgery when you try to book ,for years,least where I live anyway.
Receptionists shouldn't be asking what ailments you have etc and deciding for themselves if we are allowed to either speak or see a doctor, for starters they are not medically trained , and secondly its nothing to do with them.
I know several people who have died, and are terminally ill from cancer as a result of a lack of care, from non covid related health problems, delayed operations, and not being able to get an appointment. Its actually very sinister how people are treated at times by the so called best health service on earth, and told to clap for them afterwards.
I'm a teacher on way less money but I had to go back and teach a class of 30 children. Yet a Dr can't see one person at a time in a full hazmat suit. My GP surgery has had the same phone message for over a year telling people they have technical problems. How long does it take to fix a phone line!
I’m a hair stylist touching people’s heads!! Hundreds of different people.. No excuses for the doctor to not talk to the patient face to face. I’m sure they’ll be getting their hair cut tho hey!
Unfortunately, it will be the US system. We should look at the systems and take the best bits. However, there is money to be made by Ministers when privatisation arises. They'll privatise the bits that get them a speaking tour or a seat on the board. See David Cameron and Bain Healthcare.
Doctors need to get their lazy backsides back into their surgeries and uphold their hippocratic oath and look after their patients. If they don't want to do their job strike them off the register. Xxx
Most in the NHS have no concept of us having other things to do and can't sit in a phone queue between 9am and 10am. They don't understand we need to go to work and pay taxes to fund the NHS.
Needed to see my GP so I could have my HGV medical my GP refused to see me to do it. I explained that without my medical I couldn't renew my HGV license and without my licence I'd loose my job and livelihood still refused to see me totally not interested..
I needed one last year , had to go to a private clinic miles away , twice they cancelled my appointment one while I was already on the train getting there , never heard from them again tried calling to re arrange phone kept going dead, had to repay at another private GP this year which I have got medical now, but lost my money from last year.
@@johnrobinson2234 SUE THEM!! BREACH OF CONTRACT. also if necessary report them for fraud!! . Through civil prosecution you'll win because of payment's showing to them !. And go for costs and damages.
Start registering those complaints with your GP or hospital if you think you have not received the service you expect. I have had to, due to cancelled treatment and referral back to a clinic that had just discharged me. I have now had two letters of apology, and this goes on their performance records.
I do not think ours will. Our surgery has now renamed receptionists as 'care navigators'. They are also going to stay with e consult. and pharmacy consults.
GP's being so frightened to meet patients that it does nothing for peoples confidence. You can get to see a GP at my surgery, I have an appointment Friday. No idea yet how it's done.
Listening to this wonderful common sense refreshing woman is like listening to my nurse wife for past twenty years. Too many suits and clipboards and quit frankly some GP's have been cowards throughout pushing my wife into more and more homes while they cower away behind a screen collecting the £££
Well that's what's supposed to happen anyway. The problem is that the ambulance service is swamped with people abusing the system, so genuine people suffer delays.
I couldn't get an appointment at the Dr's on Fri, and I phoned them at 8am,and was told they were booked up for the whole day(b*******) I went hospital today, and turns out I've got pneumonia.
The last time I needed a diagnosis I had to collar my GP in the street. I will not divulge anything to a receptionist. My GP surgery has so many notices outside it looks like a protest building and the pharmacy looks like a crime scene, but I promise you my doctor will be at the pub at the first chance. They won’t see a patient, but they all out for a funeral at the church next door..
Same situation with the PDSA. My local one only does emergencies only, has a lengthy message on the phone before you get through to a anyone and has a 2-person limit inside. This should never have happened. The place was always full. Pets are suffering. The people running the country are evil.
what is normal? before covid you needed an appointment to see a doctor which was a minimum of 2 weeks. It was ridiculous before lockdown!!............all these people going to hospitals for a blood test? wtf are GP surgeries not providing this service to ease the pressure on hospitals!
if the g.p. surgeries aren't working for the people who pay for them,fu-ck 'em,bring the a & e to a halt until those pigs at westminster who all have private doctors and private hospitals do something about it.
The glorified rejectionist at my GP surgery told me " Dr Mackeating says covid is going to go on for years and years and years and that shes never having anyone come to this surgery ever again" I am very unwell and yet do not have access to a doctor. CLAP FOR THE NHS !
My specialist at Guy's and St Thomas says this is the way forward. If it is serious I have been seen relatively quickly. Problem is you can't mention the incompetence of the GP's because the NHS seem to have this holy grail contract of not bad mouthing each other.
how can there be a shortage of doctors they are ( according to the bbc ) coming over the channel in small boats every day along with all the top engineers
They are making it so hard to see the GP to get any help that people just don’t bother so the NH are saving money and people will buy the own tablets , medicine , and ointments ... if GPs are not working they should loose wages
My beautician had a baby during the height of lockdwn (2020), her health visitor left her some baby scales on her doorstep and ran back to her car where she spoke to the lady via mobile phone leaving the mother to undress, weigh the baby and give the H/V the weight then return the scales to the doorstep. You cant make these things up ppl
Why did these people enter the profession? I have a far worse neonatal tale to tell, but it upsets me too much to revisit it. When my generation were young parents, GPs made congratulatory visits and seemed to enjoy this rewarding part of their jobs.
What happened to Dr's looking after your health, and advising you, taking the time to listen to you, the answer is the Gov allowed the country to become overpopulated, the Dr's got fed up with being overworked, and consultation's got reduced to 10mins and 1 condition. Now it's all gone online, how can you do a proper consultation online and what about the older population who do not use online. We have lost our humanity.
I must say, if a GP is disillusioned, they should leave, just as any other disillusioned employee should. This is what happens when people are vastly overpaid, (as with MPs). I left a 20 year nursing career, (pre-Covid), for this very reason. I remember a colleague telling me she wished she could leave too, but didn't want the inconvenience of having to take a "poxy job". (Sic)
Tell me about it!!! I'm getting near 80 and I've even written a song called "The Doctors Surgery" (from an elderly patients perspective). The fact I had to write it from memory says it all!
I left the uk 8 months ago and now live in Ukraine.. There is no NHS, you pay. However, their medicine is significantly more advanced, and i mean a lot more, it is cheap and instantly accessible. I suffered a lot off issue in the UK with diabetes related illnesses. All have been treated and all have gone. You see a consultant next day, cost is about £25, and zero waiting rooms., You get there and they are waiting for you. They are amazing. No piffle, no crap, no rude admin staff or bossy degree nurses, just instant treatment
I’m rather confused, GP’s are forever complaining of workload. Yet, now you have a snowball in hells chance of seeing a Dr, home visits! Yea, that’s going to happen. Yet now, they are apparently working EVEN harder, doing what exactly?
I spoke to my Doctor this afternoon. Haven’t seen him for over 14 months. Last spoke to him in February of this year. After the discussion I asked him when will I actually see him again. He said it’s up to the NHS, BMC and Boris Johnson. I can however go to the surgery for my blood test and Blood Pressure consultation with a NURSE!
I am a pharmacist and can tell you that I have nowhere to send people .It is desperate.I am shocked at how people just go along with this.The medics have become in humane.Shame on them.I have been seeing people and doing blood pressure in the midst of a big supermarket with no mask.I cannot use a mask.People have been too patient.Deregister from your g.p.
A work colleague of mine phone for hours for a phone consult, had a throat infection and wanted antibiotics. , told no doctor available and told to phone 101, phone 101 they said must have an ambulance. Ambulance arrived with paramedics furious as they are being used constantly like this for what should be GP consultations.
GPS are a waste of space, these shysters have been taking full pay whilst on gardening leave since this pandemic started. Sack the lot of them enhance 111 and Zoom meetings and save a fortune, as a 78 year old I have only ever had two GPS that were any use, most have been useless.
By normal do you mean back to the 50s and 60s when you didn't need to make an appointment 2 years in advance and doctors made home visits at all hours?
i did not see my heart consultant last year nor this year by the looks, no lung function test last year & receptionist told me not allowed to use machine because of covid, who then asked me how my lungs are doing when i replied how the f would i know without doing the test she got the right hump.
Talkradio need to go a step further than asking questions with obvious answers. Instead of asking will they go back to normal they need to make a statement saying it is time for them to go back to normal. Have some conviction.
Just the other day, I was told I'd have to wait 3 days for a 5 minute PHONE call with my GP. It's truly astonishing how bad the service they're providing now is.
The doctors contracts needs to be re written urgently. People should start suing them. The new contract should start from the premise that the patient comes first and they only get paid on a sliding scale of how many patients can not get an appointment.
The only way we can change this is get in touch our MPs, if not then go off to a&e and maybe the government will change it's tune, and stop GPs from getting money for patients for the amount on there books
I haven't seen a doctor since 1998, I have tried to get appointments many times but you have to wait so long that I have always been ok again before the appointment rolled round, and this is the service I am expected to pay national insurance for 😡
Have lost all confidence in medical science, doctors or NHS. Not fit for purpose on any level. Ok for rich who can pay for private care but for normal people.... appalling. We have to protect the NHS while I believed they protected us.
I agree with all of this. An utter scandal. Another factor not mentioned is 'mental health' which has now taken over a ridiculous part of the NHS budget and is grinding the whole system to a halt.
I have had the same trouble to see a doctor I've had 16 weeks off work with a arthritic left foot and inguarial hernia it taken blood sweat and tears to see a doctor
As a doctor in the NHS, I 100% support you in this notion - a doctor who does not examine his patient, is no doctor at all!
🙏 we need more drs to speak out, i see many nurses protest the way they are being treated and the covet up of convid, but bbc won’t show it
I work in ambulance control. Thanks for your honesty. I agree.
Thanks Doc for speaking out.. in my job im seeing the after effects of lockdown within the community ... self harming, mental health and serious undiagnosed illnesses such as cancers.. we need the surgeries open for business.. the lockdown was supposed to be saving people yet all those I'm dealing with are now needing long terms services mainly due to isolation, mental health & lack of exercise.. this is just so wrong in so many ways
One of my more important direct debits is now my private health care. I've lost confidence in the NHS over the way they've prioritised Covid over all other illnesses.
@@hughjanus2020 I think we all have, mate. Private health care has limited services, though, doesn't it?
'Entitled', she got it in one. If you don't want to see patients, resign!
What the hell are we paying these doctors for?
as a surgical registrar we have done everything we possibly can to operate as much as possible , myself and my colleagues are desperate to get back to regular full daily operating lists, not only most importantly for the benefit of patients but also because after a nearly a year or more of forced inactivity as in any job you will lose skills and techniques.
I observed a young man Come into our local surgery and enquired why his 80 year old mother could not come into the surgery to make an appointment,he was told she had to go on line regardless of the fact she didn’t own a smart phone or computer
Saw this coming many moons ago. That's what happens when people, en masse, thoughtlessly embrace trendy electronics. The latter have disempowered us, not empowered us.
GPS still get paid for every registered patient. If they don't want to see us, stop giving them the money.
They're probably loving lockdown.
£2000.00 quid a week,bungs from big pharma and no weekend or bank holiday work,g.p.'s dont give a f-uck about the patients anymore and they ensure their surgery receptions are manned by the rudest,most obstructive gestapo like creatures to guard them from their patients.
Even if they agreed to see us,, we'd still get shafted. The surgeries are clogged with people with chronic conditions like diabetes who aren't necessarily in urgent need of seeing the doctor, but go to the top of the triage list due to their conditions.
My local GP surgery is doing less and less.
What, in the actual hell are they doing all day?, is it just a jab fest? If so they all need struck off
If any group of people need to have their pay cut it should be Doctors. They should hang their heads in shame. All the Doctors in my practice only work part-time anyway.
My auntie has just quit her job at a g.p surgery. She thinks their behaviour is disgusting. Most of the doctors there do between 5-8 'online consultations', have all received massive bonuses and are complaining about being over worked
My aunt, who sadly passed away last month, was unable to get an appointment with her GP back in February when she became seriously ill. It was thanks to her boyfriend who had to contact his own private doctor to see her. And he got her into hospital, sadly it was too late.
@@keithmartin1328
most of these g.p.'s only work 2 or 3 days at the nhs surgeries and the rest of the week treating their private patients usually using the facilities of the nhs to do it.
a bunch of money grabbing crooks now.
I work in the ambulance control room and typically take a hundred emergency calls in a twelve-hour shift. Many are non-emergencies like people calling for their drunk friend who needs a lift home etc. Morale has never been lower.
This plandemic. Has shown how corrupt quacks are. Not surgeons just the quacks sat doing sweet F.A.
@@thomasrobert4654 wish everyone understands this!!
People CERTAINLY did NOT clap for this sort of change in NHS GP treatment.
Collateral damage my wife, my younger brother and my next door neighbour, all in their sixties and all suffered premature deaths in 2020 because of the virtual shutdown of the NHS.
So sorry for your loss, I am at my friends funeral tomorrow, died sadly ten days after her vaccine . She had covid in February without symptoms. She was poorly but not terminally ill.
I’m so sorry to hear this x
These heart breaking stories are only going to get more and more as the year rolls on .. 🫂
Do you remember joe biden saying he wanted u.k. back into europe and to get rid of the nhs?
It's horrible, mate. All sacrificed at the altar of Covid. When you point out the tragic deaths caused as a direct result of the restrictions, all you'll get is a blank stare from the lockdown supporters. Their fake compassion is nauseating.
Can someone explain why our GPS are hiding under their desks? Front line staff yeah right its easier getting my dog in the vet than getting to see a doctor.. scandalous!!
Never mind clap for the sainted NHS.they get a loud Raspberry from me.
We are short several thousand GPs in this country but demand for primary care service is increasing. This was a problem even prior to the pandemic but it has been catalysed by the events of the past 18 months. Most things do not actually need a face to face appointment. Some people prefer not to have to come in for a simple prescription renewal or urine infection. From the patients perspective it is much quicker and instead of waiting in a car park/waiting room they can go about their day whilst waiting for a call. From the GPs perspective it is much quicker also, meaning they have more time for the patients that are more complex. There are of course those people that feel like they 'need to be seen' but this should really be at the doctors discretion and based on clinical need, not based on what someone 'wants' - in the same way that they wouldn't prescribe an antibiotic just because a patient felt like they needed them. But I understand how this can create some confusion that GPs are ignoring their patients. An example: a 55 year old woman calls her GP because she's complainig of bleeding from down below and she is losing weight. The GP should see this person face to face, because she might have cancer right? Wrong. This woman meets criteria for an urgent referral to the hospital (to be seen within 2 weeks) for a pelvic ultrasound to check for uterine cancer. Would bringing her in to the surgery and feeling her tummy and doing an intimate examination of her lady parts change anything? No, because either way she still needs an urgent referral to the hospital for an ultrasound. By managing problems such as this and many others remotely it enables the GP to overall be able to help MORE of their patients, in time where demand is high and there are limited resources. The number of GP consultations overall (whether that be face to face, online, phone etc) is higher now than it was pre-pandemic. If you make face to face the default it will make it take LONGER for people to be able to access their GP. Clueless politicians and journos who know nothing about medicine should stay out of telling doctors how to treat their patients.
This is frightening. Time for the nation to rise up and demand a true national health service.
Only if the funding for care is restricted to citizens of this country and others self pay. Last Friday the NHSE sent out a letter to GPs to see their patients face to face. In there it also reminded the GPs to stop checking their new patient for their eligibility re access to NZhS care. The have to register anyone who request it!! Madness - no wonder it is impossible even to have a phone consultation!!
You’re lucky if you can get past the GP receptionist.
I know like scrap yard guard dogs
I know a Gp who is deeply ashamed of her peers.
“I have Covid symptoms”.
“Stay at home and get back to us in 7 days if not feeling better”
“You mean let the virus take hold without treatment”
“That’s right, nothing we can do until you are a hospital case”.
This is your NHS folks.
Yea its Bonkers surely had doctors seen more Covid Patience earlier far less would have died rather than Self Isolate and hope for the best.
GPs are suppose to be first line of defence against serious illness and that has been shambolic these past year.
go to A&E and tell them your GP refuses to see you. Eventually the A&E ppl will raise a ruckus with the physicians' overseers and they;'ll put their foot down. ps we were ALWAYS taught that you canNOT diagnose over the phone....we can be charged with MALPRACTICE.. The client ALWAYS forgets something important, or doesn't know WHAT is important. And i'm a VETERINARIAN.
Exactly!!!!!!!!
@@stephen6whitehead398 the most enormous national scandal ever? Criminal.
Don't go to hospital, you will die. Stay in bed with cool drinks, no food, vitamin D tablets and a week later you'll be fine. My son proves it, he's young but his mate's mother isn't and same story. Use a ouija board to ask what went wrong in hospital. So many alternatives to chose from, such as treating as for covid when it could have been heart attack, cancer, etc all the period killers too they all disappeared for covid???
GP receptionists are not supposed to "triage" patients, although apparently they frequently do and expect to discuss your medical condition in front of others in the queue. GPs are now run like call centres, they are "gate keepers" to the services you need. A lot of what GPs do could be replaced by an algorithm, and some of them seem to be so lacking in humanity I assumed they were secretly replaced by robots long ago.
No, you're right. But I'm sure it'll be worded in a way that sidesteps any legal liability.
If that’s the case let’s get rid of this tier snd have direct access to hospital doctors/specialists supported by a cheaper medical call centre in India
I phoned up my GP, they never even phoned me back, says it all really
I'm surprised you even got through. I was told to ring at 0800. I did. It went straight to a recorded message saying their were no appointment slots left. I guess a hundred people must have called before me at 0759.
That is common practice now, sorry to say.
My friend had an x-ray two months ago and is still waiting for the results. She has rung the GP surgery many times and every time is given the same brushoff. It is disgusting.
we were ALWAYS taught to NEVER diagnose over the phone. The patient always forgets or doesn't know to mention something important. Also, you can't listen to someone's heart or take their Blood Pressure or blood for Cholesterol over the phone....and those are the number one causes of death EVERYWHERE.
This is an absolute disgrace I refuse point blank to send a photo to my doctor. My surgery is in a small village in Scotland and its the same problem here paid plenty but doing nothing. Diagnosing someone starts from the minute you SEE them walk in the door, how the walk, colour of skin etc. Its time people take a stance about this and complain in writing to MPs
My lovely brother died in 2020 at aged 60 because he couldn't go to the Doctors. I truly feel sorry for those who lost their lives to Covid and for their loved ones but at the same time there are so many of us who are without loved ones today because of these idiotic decisions.
I'm sorry for your loss. You're right, it's mind blowing that the past 15 months has only been about covid, a virus that most people won't even know they had, while mental health issues and other diseases get ignored.
So glad someone is discussing this and bringing to light the dreadful state of some of our GP surgeries.
Phone any Drs in the Uk and you will get nearly 4 minutes of covid Covid Covid, do you really need the Dr or hospital, don’t call regarding prescriptions, don’t get abusive with us mate , Covid Covid Covid
Your 10th in the queue and Sorry we have no appointments this week.
Easier to call a vet .
And then palmed off to 111, who then palm off most of their (non-emergency) call onto the 999 ambulance service. The result: people in genuine need (strokes, chest pain etc) suffer delays due to the wasted ambulances sent to 'depressed' students, uninjured people who want picking up, twenty-five-year olds with abdo pain etc.
It may be easier to call a vet but the veterinary clinic that I attend are also cashing in and have doubled their prices since this scandemic.
.....the days of ringing the surgery any time of the day and getting an appointment when you want it are long gone....
I had this experience last week. I called the GP's surgery and the receptionist said I would need to tell her what was wrong and if it sounded serious she would get a nurse to call me back. I said its personal and I'd rather not tell her what was wrong and she replied that she couldn't get me a call back in that case. I asked "I have doctor - patient confidentiality, do I now need to have receptionist - patient confidentiality?" Short answer is you have no choice but to tell the receptionist your personal medical problem/history and hope she deems it worthy to have a nurse (not a doctor) call you back.
I really don't like the idea that you have to tell a receptionist about your personal ailments/ illness etc, also they are not qualified medically to know whether a doctor should see or speak to you.
Just say something completely ludicrous they actually have no knowledge about but sounds serious, say you have had past problems with an infection called something so complex they couldn’t actually even have a chance of spelling in google, they are goons and don’t know fuck all, if I get through at bang on 8 I can get a call back, I’m happy enough with a phone call but I know most older folk are not and it’s not fair.
Yes I believe this experience is all too common now, I read an article recently were someone died as a result of not being able to get past the receptionist, who deemed the problem unimportant. This situation needs to be addressed.
Two weeks ago I had a private Osteopath appointment.... I casually mentioned that I hadnt been feeling well.... she offered to check my blood pressure.... Afterwards as a result of the reading she advised me to see my Doctor. I duly rang and was asked by the Receptionist. 'Don't you have a blood pressure monitor like most other people??' I replied that I did not and she reluctantly made an appointment for two weeks time.. 🙄 I could be dead for all they care.... Meanwhile. Y lovely Osteopath has rang me to find out how I am....
I'd consider a complaint. That's an unreasonable and antagonistic thing to say to a patient looking for help.
Last time I saw my doctor/nurse was December 2019 with no prospect of a face to face till October 2021. In normal times I am supposed to see them once very six months. My wife is a receptionist and absolutely hates the triage system she is obliged to administer. The current and evolving system stinks and I really do wonder whether there is a conscious decision to thin out the population!
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The NHS is finished, its all private now. Blair started it and Johnson finished it off.
The way things are going you would be better of seeing a vet!!
They are trying that with experimental so called vaccines.
Cull?
I tried to make an appointment but they said that I had previously died of Covid so they couldn't see me.
Sue your gp for malpractice.
I tore my Achilles last November, I couldn't get an xray at the hospital because it's not Covid related. 7 months later, the tear is still there, so I have to have physiotherapy...over video call 🙄🙄 The collapse of the NHS will be inevitable due to all the people suing them, due to their negligence.
and due to all the dross working for them.
the nhs was due to go anyway, poor need to die so the drs can all go private and make a ton of cash 💰
I work for it. I agree with you. Not fit for purpose anymore. When it does collapse, it won't just be because of claims; it'll be the inevitable result of decades of mismanagement, financial incompetence and abuse of the system.
Might I just add the rates are £25 per hour for a jabbing nurse amd £75 per hour for a doctor to be "in attendance".
GP surgeries became more like businesses a long time ago They got a big pay boost based on hitting vaccination targets. Which begs the question, why should they need financial incentives simply to do the job they are already paid to do? How can anyone be surprised people who are suspicious of vaccines when that is the case?
big pharma has the nhs,the weaker g.p's and the surgeries by the ba-lls,they are terrified to make a decision based on their own judgement for fear of that other bunch of crooks the legal trade.
forget all this bo-llocks about the sainted nhs,its a business now,ask your surgery who owns them and how many of their g.p.'s are still employed by the nhs or by the company that owns the surgery.
you don't own the nhs anymore brits you just pay for it.
BC Is that literally just to be in attendance? Wow.
No wonder they push the vaccine on as many people as possible and smear anyone who's cautious as an 'anti-vaxxer'.
@@chanelfitzgerald Yes Chanel, my wife is one of those engaged with the vaccination process. Quite literally the doctor(s) stands there doing to all intents and purposes absolutely nothing! One particular doctor signs up to every vaccine shift going and I would think conservatively he will be raking in a minimum of £900 for 12 hours work. Some weeks possibly more.
Maybe the NHS needs to remove half the managers, and employ all the dingy doctors.
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I was amazed when recently the NHS sent a letter to all GPs saying (amongst other matters) that should a patient turn up at the surgery without an appointment they should be shown how to get an appointment online or using an app. This shows a complete lack of appreciation of the problem. Not everyone has a mobile phone or indeed access to the internet and/or some people do not have the skills or ability to go online and book an appointment. There was a letter in the DT last week from someone saying they had 123 attempts to contact their GP surgery to book an appointment.
In any other "industry" the consumer could switch to another provider and posting on social media or platforms such as tripadvisor would cause the situation to be addressed immediately.
Probably whipper snapper making the policies without understanding of the customer base (ie patients). Have seen how much my elder neighbours with chronic health have suffered. They have a landline and nothing else. App? Online? 🤔🤔 they would not know what that is. This is pure age discrimination and neglect of a section of society
Brilliant work Allison! Keep the pressure up.
My girlfriend's uncle suddenly passed away from a heart attack last week as he sat watching TV with his wife.
Well, by sudden... I mean his doctor told them he was suffering an asthma attack...continuously, for 3 weeks until his heart attack.
Can't help but wonder now if had he been seen by his GP and booked in for a scan, maybe he would be alive now.
sorry to hear this, this will only stop if everyone stands up and protests the gps cos it can no longer go on
Sorry for your loss. But with priority symptoms like breathing difficulty or chest pain, the GP is not the correct course of action. A 999 call is.
Very sorry to here this, and yes if he'd been seen and assessed properly he would have probably only needed a stent incerted, just like my brother would have needed. Your uncle and my brother both died needlessly.
That phone diagnosis was happening before lockdown & the receptionists have been loudly demanding what yr symptoms are either on the phone when you ring for appointment or in the surgery when you try to book ,for years,least where I live anyway.
Receptionists shouldn't be asking what ailments you have etc and deciding for themselves if we are allowed to either speak or see a doctor, for starters they are not medically trained , and secondly its nothing to do with them.
I know several people who have died, and are terminally ill from cancer as a result of a lack of care, from non covid related health problems, delayed operations, and not being able to get an appointment.
Its actually very sinister how people are treated at times by the so called best health service on earth, and told to clap for them afterwards.
the days of the sainted nhs are over,its all cash or f-uck off now.
I'm a teacher on way less money but I had to go back and teach a class of 30 children. Yet a Dr can't see one person at a time in a full hazmat suit. My GP surgery has had the same phone message for over a year telling people they have technical problems. How long does it take to fix a phone line!
I’m a hair stylist touching people’s heads!! Hundreds of different people.. No excuses for the doctor to not talk to the patient face to face. I’m sure they’ll be getting their hair cut tho hey!
The nurses in the hospitals community and general practice have been seeing patients throughout ...GPS have not!
Read your comment afain, ,it is contradicting itself.
I agree with what Allison said about NHS. Indeed we need to look at systems in other countries and totally change the NHS.
Unfortunately, it will be the US system.
We should look at the systems and take the best bits. However, there is money to be made by Ministers when privatisation arises. They'll privatise the bits that get them a speaking tour or a seat on the board.
See David Cameron and Bain Healthcare.
Agreed and to stop calling it NHS trust.
Doctors need to get their lazy backsides back into their surgeries and uphold their hippocratic oath and look after their patients. If they don't want to do their job strike them off the register. Xxx
Most in the NHS have no concept of us having other things to do and can't sit in a phone queue between 9am and 10am. They don't understand we need to go to work and pay taxes to fund the NHS.
This ought to be promoted so as many people as possible hear it. I think we should protest - oh wait, we are not allowed to!
The GP service is no longer fit for purpose.
The NHS has been closed for the last 14 months for privatisation. Going there for Healthcare is as pointless as booking a Thomas Cook holiday.
Correct.
Needed to see my GP so I could have my HGV medical my GP refused to see me to do it. I explained that without my medical I couldn't renew my HGV license and without my licence I'd loose my job and livelihood still refused to see me totally not interested..
And, unfortunately, the GP will charge an enormous fee just to fill a form in.
I needed one last year , had to go to a private clinic miles away , twice they cancelled my appointment one while I was already on the train getting there , never heard from them again tried calling to re arrange phone kept going dead, had to repay at another private GP this year which I have got medical now, but lost my money from last year.
@@johnrobinson2234 SUE THEM!! BREACH OF CONTRACT. also if necessary report them for fraud!! . Through civil prosecution you'll win because of payment's showing to them !. And go for costs and damages.
The inhumanity and greed of many of the medics sometimes defies belief
Have your gp struck off by the general medical council.
Start registering those complaints with your GP or hospital if you think you have not received the service you expect. I have had to, due to cancelled treatment and referral back to a clinic that had just discharged me. I have now had two letters of apology, and this goes on their performance records.
Contact the general medical council if you want/need your gp struck off the register.
I do not think ours will. Our surgery has now renamed receptionists as 'care navigators'. They are also going to stay with e consult. and pharmacy consults.
GP's being so frightened to meet patients that it does nothing for peoples confidence.
You can get to see a GP at my surgery, I have an appointment Friday. No idea yet how it's done.
At mine its a phone appointment which could turn into a face to face.
I seen a GP during lockdown, I have never known somebody so scared he told me to sit more than 2 meters apart
About time to cut G Ps wages.
Listening to this wonderful common sense refreshing woman is like listening to my nurse wife for past twenty years. Too many suits and clipboards and quit frankly some GP's have been cowards throughout pushing my wife into more and more homes while they cower away behind a screen collecting the £££
I won’t bother with the GP if I was really poorly I would go to A&E for a Triage...the NHS is broken.
quite right,f-ck 'em all,you only get one life.
Well that's what's supposed to happen anyway. The problem is that the ambulance service is swamped with people abusing the system, so genuine people suffer delays.
This ain't just happening in England, Wales is exactly the same.
I couldn't get an appointment at the Dr's on Fri, and I phoned them at 8am,and was told they were booked up for the whole day(b*******) I went hospital today, and turns out I've got pneumonia.
The doctors are not willing to see us , so what are they being paid for ? ? 🤔
It's a disgrace !!!!!!! do they want the job or not?
The NHS is no longer fit for purpose. Yet sill we are all paying ENORMOUS amounts of public money for the service that does nothing for us.
The last time I needed a diagnosis I had to collar my GP in the street. I will not divulge anything to a receptionist. My GP surgery has so many notices outside it looks like a protest building and the pharmacy looks like a crime scene, but I promise you my doctor will be at the pub at the first chance. They won’t see a patient, but they all out for a funeral at the church next door..
Same situation with the PDSA. My local one only does emergencies only, has a lengthy message on the phone before you get through to a anyone and has a 2-person limit inside. This should never have happened. The place was always full. Pets are suffering. The people running the country are evil.
Clap for the NHS?
With a 4.5 million waiting list.... I don’t think so!
We’ve been abandoned
GPS and teachers, social workiers and civil servents dont give a toss
Most public sector workers are the same, don’t earn their pay
I give a toss. Sadly many of my colleagues are far too happy taking the money for nothing
what is normal? before covid you needed an appointment to see a doctor which was a minimum of 2 weeks. It was ridiculous before lockdown!!............all these people going to hospitals for a blood test? wtf are GP surgeries not providing this service to ease the pressure on hospitals!
if the g.p. surgeries aren't working for the people who pay for them,fu-ck 'em,bring the a & e to a halt until those pigs at westminster who all have private doctors and private hospitals do something about it.
The glorified rejectionist at my GP surgery told me
" Dr Mackeating says covid is going to go on for years and years and years and that shes never having anyone come to this surgery ever again" I am very unwell and yet do not have access to a doctor.
CLAP FOR THE NHS !
Have dr struck off by the general medical council.
My specialist at Guy's and St Thomas says this is the way forward. If it is serious I have been seen relatively quickly. Problem is you can't mention the incompetence of the GP's because the NHS seem to have this holy grail contract of not bad mouthing each other.
how can there be a shortage of doctors they are ( according to the bbc ) coming over the channel in small boats every day along with all the top engineers
and the indians
@@daysgone2997 With a name like yours, I highly doubt you are white!
They are making it so hard to see the GP to get any help that people just don’t bother so the NH are saving money and people will buy the own tablets , medicine , and ointments ... if GPs are not working they should loose wages
swamp the a &e services bring the whole lot to a halt.
people just need to ask to see a doctor and if refused just go to A&E, once we disrupt hospitals enough things will go back to normal.
exactly bring the lot to a halt,and remember you pay to be looked after dont let them take the pi-ss.
Nice, just abuse the service so that those really in need pay the price...
The last 400 days, my corner shop has been open for 400 days. My doctors 0 days.
My beautician had a baby during the height of lockdwn (2020), her health visitor left her some baby scales on her doorstep and ran back to her car where she spoke to the lady via mobile phone leaving the mother to undress, weigh the baby and give the H/V the weight then return the scales to the doorstep. You cant make these things up ppl
Why did these people enter the profession? I have a far worse neonatal tale to tell, but it upsets me too much to revisit it.
When my generation were young parents, GPs made congratulatory visits and seemed to enjoy this rewarding part of their jobs.
And people are paying for the GPS to see them ....reduce their income by 20% then x
What happened to Dr's looking after your health, and advising you, taking the time to listen to you, the answer is the Gov allowed the country to become overpopulated, the Dr's got fed up with being overworked, and consultation's got reduced to 10mins and 1 condition.
Now it's all gone online, how can you do a proper consultation online and what about the older population who do not use online. We have lost our humanity.
I must say, if a GP is disillusioned, they should leave, just as any other disillusioned employee should. This is what happens when people are vastly overpaid, (as with MPs).
I left a 20 year nursing career, (pre-Covid), for this very reason. I remember a colleague telling me she wished she could leave too, but didn't want the inconvenience of having to take a "poxy job". (Sic)
Tell me about it!!! I'm getting near 80 and I've even written a song called "The Doctors Surgery" (from an elderly patients perspective). The fact I had to write it from memory says it all!
GP's love sitting at home making the odd phone call.
Telling people what they want to here again...try getting GP's on and asking them why they are not treating people
We should all withhold all our council taxes for a while to put pressure on the government and the NHS and the police's funding stream.
I left the uk 8 months ago and now live in Ukraine.. There is no NHS, you pay. However, their medicine is significantly more advanced, and i mean a lot more, it is cheap and instantly accessible. I suffered a lot off issue in the UK with diabetes related illnesses. All have been treated and all have gone. You see a consultant next day, cost is about £25, and zero waiting rooms., You get there and they are waiting for you. They are amazing. No piffle, no crap, no rude admin staff or bossy degree nurses, just instant treatment
Now I know where I am moving to.
I’m rather confused, GP’s are forever complaining of workload. Yet, now you have a snowball in hells chance of seeing a Dr, home visits! Yea, that’s going to happen. Yet now, they are apparently working EVEN harder, doing what exactly?
Just go straight to A&E, I did and they were brilliant.
Are you suggesting that THAT is the solution?
I spoke to my Doctor this afternoon. Haven’t seen him for over 14 months. Last spoke to him in February of this year. After the discussion I asked him when will I actually see him again. He said it’s up to the NHS, BMC and Boris Johnson. I can however go to the surgery for my blood test and Blood Pressure consultation with a NURSE!
I am a pharmacist and can tell you that I have nowhere to send people .It is desperate.I am shocked at how people just go along with this.The medics have become in humane.Shame on them.I have been seeing people and doing blood pressure in the midst of a big supermarket with no mask.I cannot use a mask.People have been too patient.Deregister from your g.p.
Would be a better system if they were paid on a patient seen basis.
A work colleague of mine phone for hours for a phone consult, had a throat infection and wanted antibiotics. , told no doctor available and told to phone 101, phone 101 they said must have an ambulance. Ambulance arrived with paramedics furious as they are being used constantly like this for what should be GP consultations.
GP surgeries are ran like a business and unlike a hospital, have very little accountability
There's 100s of new doctors arriving daily in dinghys. Get them working.
Its not only Doctors, my wife has been waiting TWO YEARS for dental work!
GPS are a waste of space, these shysters have been taking full pay whilst on gardening leave since this pandemic started.
Sack the lot of them enhance 111 and Zoom meetings and save a fortune, as a 78 year old I have only ever had two GPS that were any use, most have been useless.
No thank you. When I had to ring 111, it took 30 minutes of totally irrelevant questions before I was asked what my problem was.
By normal do you mean back to the 50s and 60s when you didn't need to make an appointment 2 years in advance and doctors made home visits at all hours?
i did not see my heart consultant last year nor this year by the looks, no lung function test last year & receptionist told me not allowed to use machine because of covid, who then asked me how my lungs are doing when i replied how the f would i know without doing the test she got the right hump.
Talkradio need to go a step further than asking questions with obvious answers.
Instead of asking will they go back to normal they need to make a statement saying it is time for them to go back to normal.
Have some conviction.
If I can’t see a doctor I will just go to A&E and use them. I have spoken to other people and they are going to do the same
A GP is like a jack of all trades, they know a little about a lot.
Last few times I actually saw a g.p they just googled my symptoms.
Its not about risk. GPs have been trying to do less for more for years and Covid handed them a golden platter
Coincidence 🤔?
Our GP surgery did this before Covid even got out.
Just the other day, I was told I'd have to wait 3 days for a 5 minute PHONE call with my GP. It's truly astonishing how bad the service they're providing now is.
Try 4-6 weeks for a 90 second call from
Dr, because the dr is intent on rushing patient off the fkn phone.
The doctors contracts needs to be re written urgently. People should start suing them.
The new contract should start from the premise that the patient comes first and they only get paid on a sliding scale of how many patients can not get an appointment.
The only way we can change this is get in touch our MPs, if not then go off to a&e and maybe the government will change it's tune, and stop GPs from getting money for patients for the amount on there books
I haven't seen a doctor since 1998, I have tried to get appointments many times but you have to wait so long that I have always been ok again before the appointment rolled round, and this is the service I am expected to pay national insurance for 😡
Basically you cant see your doctor just incase you might be sick! Wtf is going on?
See the same Dr? I haven't seen the same GP twice for over 16 years !! And that's when I can get to see one
Have lost all confidence in medical science, doctors or NHS. Not fit for purpose on any level. Ok for rich who can pay for private care but for normal people.... appalling. We have to protect the NHS while I believed they protected us.
The common mindset of government employees is one of apathy. Why should a government doctor be any different?
I agree with all of this. An utter scandal. Another factor not mentioned is 'mental health' which has now taken over a ridiculous part of the NHS budget and is grinding the whole system to a halt.
I have had the same trouble to see a doctor I've had 16 weeks off work with a arthritic left foot and inguarial hernia it taken blood sweat and tears to see a doctor
in my local practice only the men & single women do full time, the 3 women quacks do part time but as partners still clear over £100k per annum.