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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by local View Post
    Your right.
    Unlike your English!
    Age is simply a matter of mind - age doesn't matter if you don't mind

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    GP Surgeries

    My GP surgery is open but you enter through the side door as the main door is locked, then you ring the bell and are asked to sit in the waiting room. I only went to the doctor's once this year and I drew the short straw and got the worst doctor. Rabbits on at a rate of knots, very unintelligible language. I told her at one point to slow down as I couldn't understand her. Plus, I arrived 10 mins before my appointment like you're supposed to and was left in the waiting room for 40 mins. I had to go up to the window at reception twice asking if the doctor had forgotten they had patients.

    Very unprofessional in my view.

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    A good measure of how busy they are is when I place an online request for a repeat prescription, a process that used to take 3 or 4 days, for the request to be seen, approved, sent to the pharmacy and delivered.
    It now takes hours, depending on what time of day I send it, I have received the prescription same day and never later than next day.

    They must be sat there waiting for the emails and dealing with them straight away.
    Never, ever, argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

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    Quote Originally Posted by Knot wright View Post
    had a cancer op in Feb ..since I come out of hospital everything has been a complete joke . its not everyday you loose an organ and wonder if you are now okay , and then hear nothing off anyone , no support staff , not a phone call ... I did start to wonder wonder about the NHS staffing levels

    Days later I was struggling to get a booking to have my staples removed on time , no one would take the job on from Southport to Netherton clinics , so I handed the task back to the surgery along with a complaint , lo and behold the local nurse got in touch who then said it was a 2 day job due to the number of staples !! , I grinned and bared it and had it done in one go . yes it did sting . A follow up redressing of the wounds was done .
    Two days ! how big is the scar ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The PNP View Post
    Ghost Practitioners?
    Sounds like the latest Xbox game

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    I had a strange one lately. I have an injection at regular intervals which requires a pre injection blood test.

    The surgery rang me to say I would have to take the medication orally as a temporary solution.
    Why, I asked. The clinics are not doing injections due to Covid19 restrictions, was the reply.
    Oh, I said, will the blood test still be done though? Oh yes, was the reply.
    I momentarily toyed with the idea of arguing the obvious point but decided against the idea remembering previous attempts to point out how daft something was.

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    You can read a review on your GP and leave a review here;

    https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp


    There are some pretty poor reviews and some very good ones which just about sums up my experience of a few practices.

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    even if you use these services which are actually very good...your own gp gets paid for your visit, the service adds on their bit and charges the nhs.....so, if you are a gp...there is no point in working...the nhs has become a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gazaprop View Post
    I had a strange one lately. I have an injection at regular intervals which requires a pre injection blood test.

    The surgery rang me to say I would have to take the medication orally as a temporary solution.
    Why, I asked. The clinics are not doing injections due to Covid19 restrictions, was the reply.
    Oh, I said, will the blood test still be done though? Oh yes, was the reply.
    I momentarily toyed with the idea of arguing the obvious point but decided against the idea remembering previous attempts to point out how daft something was.
    because blood tests can be farmed out to another service/clinic, but your gp still gets paid for that blood test....how mad is that

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    Quote Originally Posted by muddyboots View Post
    even if you use these services which are actually very good...your own gp gets paid for your visit, the service adds on their bit and charges the nhs.....so, if you are a gp...there is no point in working...the nhs has become a farce.
    That is odd.
    in my area G.p practices have to serve a designated minimum amount of hours to the on call service rota.
    The service charges the practice for services given to the patient.
    A letter detailing requests and treatment from the out of hours service is recorded
    in the patients notes.

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    "The new contract passed the responsibility for organising out-of-hours services from individual doctors to the primary care trusts. Practices could opt out of the provision of out-of-hours services and lose the £6000 and most did. Some PCTs worked with the GP co-operatives, but some gave the contract to a commercial provider, commonly Harmoni or Serco both of which have been the subject of major complaints and of failing to employ sufficient doctors. By 2013 most of the co-operatives had converted to social enterprises.[9] Many of the co-ops were involved in the provision of contracts to deliver NHS 111 services. According to John Horrocks, chief executive of Urgent Health UK, "It's not the same as it used to be, where everyone took their turn in a co-operative. It's more of a lifestyle choice. Now, you often find GPs who specialise in out-of-hours … typically, a shift rota is available on the internet and the GP is able to sign up to whatever shifts they want to work."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-hours_service
    Last edited by Hamble; 14/11/2020 at 08:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by muddyboots View Post
    because blood tests can be farmed out to another service/clinic, but your gp still gets paid for that blood test....how mad is that
    Farmed out where?
    nhs trusts?
    Unlikely all routine blood tests would be directed back to their G.p

    Hospitals give out the shortest prescription amounts they can to keep their prescribing rates down.
    Gp's are constantly audited by the nhs who publish prescribing results costs by practice and push cheaper generic prescribing.


    Just read the Summary.

    https://publications.parliament.uk/p...cc/173/173.pdf

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    Knot Right & Little Londoner I am sorry to hear your aftercare has been so abysmal. It seems the norm currently which is entirely unacceptable. A friend of mine was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in March and told because of Covid he couldn't have the chemotherapy he needed. He died in September. (Coventry, not Southport I should clarify) I hear so many stories of people who have been let down so badly this year that I have come to the conclusion that for most of us the NHS has simply ceased to exist.
    I'm only happy when it rains....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkside View Post
    Knot Right & Little Londoner I am sorry to hear your aftercare has been so abysmal. It seems the norm currently which is entirely unacceptable. A friend of mine was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in March and told because of Covid he couldn't have the chemotherapy he needed. He died in September. (Coventry, not Southport I should clarify) I hear so many stories of people who have been let down so badly this year that I have come to the conclusion that for most of us the NHS has simply ceased to exist.
    I am so sorry for your loss.

    I do worry about our (adult) children getting ill or having an accident in these times as I am sure others do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Londoner View Post
    Me too cancer op last year supposed 12 month examination but not heard a dickie bird.
    Iv saId numerous times on here that people who are ill TODAY are paying a heavy price to protect people who MIGHT become ill TOMORROW.

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