Appointment to see a GP, no more waiting in the surgery
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Getting to see a doctor
Our local practice has now opted for an appointment system (to see the GP), which sounds wonderful until you wake up one morning, in pain and need of advice. It would seem the only way to get an appointment to see a doctor is to d
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Do many languish at home in need of the help which is now so difficult to find? More importantly does anyone really care? Perhaps we could be forgiven for thinking that medication was fast becoming a rich man's privilege.
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| 04-4-2008 | getting a doctors appoment Is bad enough but when you finaly get in after waiting 10 minutes after your appoment time for the gp to say what up you tell him then you say something ealse and thay have a go at you for saying you should have told me at the start of this appment the you have to things w...more | tracey |
| 11-3-2008 | My GP practice requires all appointments to be booked on the phone between 8am & 9am. As a result, the phone is constantlt engaged. If you get through AFTER 9am, you get a answerphone message instructing you to call back the following day berween 8am & 9am - and so it goes on and on and on.....more | Old grouch |
| 05-3-2008 | They aren't much use are they?
For example - You have a terrible stomach bug, you go to see a doctor. He has no idea what it is and prescribes you a form of medication.
The bug is dying all the time inside but you think it's due to the medication. You feel better believing the medi...more | Jimmy P |
| 05-3-2008 | The main trouble with the General Practice system of doctoring in this country is that the whole arrangement is Victorian in its management. It hasn't eveolved. The whole way they handle your medical records is antediluvian. As recipient's of the state's bounty doctors are generally gros...more | Modernise |
| 04-3-2008 | Nothing works anymore for we don't have the facilities and infrastructure to cater for all aliens. We are proportioned to the people of Britain but are now facing too much strain.
Some countries don't have such luxurious as NHS back home, but they do when here.
A friend of ours gave b...more | Cammy |
| 04-3-2008 | I think the current system offers little privacy and few choices for who you want to see. Receptionists ask questions on the phone that a doctor should be asking to determine the urgency and it seems to be at their will who gets in when, although they have no medical training - at least at my surger...more | Leanne |
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