Same day appointment with your doctor
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Down at the doctors
It could take nearly a week before I 'feelgood' again because the surgery is full and there are no more appointments to see the doctor available today. Do we have to be knocking on deaths' door?
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When something is wrong I quite literally need to be nagged into going to see a doctor. I've discovered however that it is very difficult to get an appointment that day unless you declare an emergency!
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| 06-5-2008 | I am finding myself getting increasingly stressed and therefore ill over my struggle to get a doctor's appointment. I do not see my doctor very often, haven't been for years in fact, but have not been able to get an appointment for months! The receptionists seem to get a kick from not being ...more | K in Harringay |
| 28-3-2008 | Since leaving the Armed Forces, I can't get anywhere near a GP. I was shot right through the shoulder in the first Gulf war and woke in a hospital bed in Turkey. I continued with my service until retirement but am limited to what I can do. Every now and then I lose the strength in my arm.
...more | Sonny |
| 28-3-2008 | The only sure way to get to see a doctor is to join the queue at 08.30 outside the surgery. Since this sorts out who really needs attention it is probably a good thing. This was the system used 40 years ago and it worked, but now we don't have the opportunity to do the same for the afternoon or ...more | Irritated patient |
| 19-3-2008 | Having read all of the postings on this gripe,I feel as Im the only one with no gripe to make.A while ago I was admitted into hospital via 999 with acute stomach pain which was later diagnosed as Pancreatitus due to a pysudo cyst.Since my discharge from hospital my docter organised regular CT scans ...more | Handyman |
| 14-3-2008 | I am a GP and am very sorry to read this, but have to confess that things are not too dissimilar at my own practice when we're really busy...
I am not going to make excuses about how the government has essentially forced us into this position (not enough doctors to patients), but interesting...more | Sympathetic doctor |
| 01-2-2008 | Comments that I have read are the opposite of what I am experiencing. At my doctors you cannot make forward appointments. Not all appointments needed are for illness; what about routine checks, vaccinations etc.
I cannot easily drop everything at work and go to the doctors without first arrangi...more | Disgruntled |
| 21-1-2008 | The General Practice system as operated in this country is grossly inefficient. GP practices are far, far too small. The system of seeing a person costing £100,000 per year to issue a drug costing £5 per month is ridiculous. GPs practicing this aren't worth the money they are paid. In...more | Shut the doctors surgeries down |
| 21-1-2008 | I think the gp appointments system is absolutly abysmal, and seems to just plod on regardless of patients comments, at my gp surgery in Stoke on Trent, I tried to book an appointment this morning at 8.30am, the phone was constantly engaged, eventuall answered at 09.10 to be told "will 2 weeks t...more | geffo |
| 08-11-2007 | I've given up trying to get an appointment with my GP altogether. I've just moved to a new area and the receptionists there are so miserable. I have to ring at 8.30 in the morning to get an appointment and when I ring I can never get through. Now I just use NHSDirect and when it's a seri...more | Lone ranger |
| 06-11-2007 | I have been trying to solve my breathing broblem since July. I know that I have asthmas but I am sure having a hard time convinceing my dr's After waiting atleast a month to finally get in to see a Dr. at the army hospital that I am required to go to, I was told that I have a lung infection, giv...more | Shannon |
| 21-10-2007 | For the past 6 weeks I have been ill on and off with a viral bug and have managed to see my GP twice and have been told to rest and the usual take painkillers which I already know.Last weekend I was feeling very ill,didn't think of ringing NHS direct so waited till mon morning to make an appoint...more | A. Bhatt |
| 01-10-2007 | To see a doctor of your choice there is at least 3 to 4 weeks waiting.
Obviously you need to follow up with the doctor who is treating you,if you mention you have had a blood test etc the receptionist will tell you there is no need to see a doctor you can ring up for results on 0844 number they don...more | rosy |
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