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Post by random on Oct 25, 2016 19:31:25 GMT
Have had a cold// or something for over 2 weeks. Got worse and a sore throat was developing.
Rang 111. Asked boring questions presumably fro a script. Said i should go to GP. GP receptionist said Dr would ring ne but no face face appts. Dr rang and asked a subset of questions above. Said no appts at practice but would book me in fir extended GP service. Went to this appt. 2 bus rides away (fortunately free ) and Dr said throat was infected.
The extendwd service usef to br walk in but now you have to be vetted by your normal GP.
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Post by easilydistracted on Oct 25, 2016 23:38:07 GMT
It's quite bonkers On one occasion turned up at the walk in centre to be told it was a 2.5 hr wait. Being pushed for time and thinking I'll be best coming back another day, I asked for an appointment, certainly - 2hrs Eh? But that's only to see a nurse who will then ask a few questions and send me back to the waiting room, I did get to see a GP that day though but not a couple of hours later again. To make a regular appointment for a GP here is 1 week to see a locum, 2 weeks for a resident GP or 3 for a named GP... Sadly they are now talking of cutting the walk in service as it is "encouraging people who should just be going to the chemist for some OTC remedy" The local A&E is no more fun, after being sent there by the district nurse ( with a letter referring me ) I was made to stand there (sitting was not an option at the time...) waiting for 2 hours before being called into triage to be asked what was wrong, neither the receptionist or the nurse had bothered to look at the letter. From there back out to stand for another couple of hours. Oh, that district nurse was because she was also the first one to have seen me and was looking at my wound knowing what it had looked like at the beginning and saw straight away that it had A - opened up, B - become infected. The district nurses between times had been different each day never noticed that what once was a small healthy wound was turning into a larger unhealthy one. All of the above in just this last year. So while the medical staff themselves have generally been excellent, the ability to see them has not and the planning of them seems diabolical!
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Post by easilydistracted on Oct 25, 2016 23:40:47 GMT
Oh yeah
And the op that caused that wound was cancelled twice before it finally happened!
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Post by marionk on Oct 26, 2016 12:53:17 GMT
It's crazy, the gov't cuts are really biting, but all the media does is tell us not to go to A&E, and that the nhs is at breaking point.
Well duh, that's the whole point of all the cuts. They should be pointing the finger at the gov't cuts; instead they blame fat people . . .
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Post by stresshead75 on Dec 24, 2016 21:36:46 GMT
My OH has been sick21 days today ,we went to walk in ,the crowds!! So having to stay in hall for about 2 hrs she was called, 21 days swollen glands,fever and a cough 9 people with asthma wouldn't have!!! Told nothing wrong with her ,off wit ya!!!! I had to go to chemist where they refused to sell me 2x night nurse!!!!!! I said it to pharmacist,"no no not not the case" Then she hands me my script for promazine but on the label it says profanazine the main ingrident in night nurse! Freuid slip? ?? Bottom line NHS is a shambles !!!!!!!!! SH75 😀 Not to mention the 3 times in 6 days I was trying to talk to a gp, got passed around like a peace pipe between locums!!!
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