I hear the government will start negotiating with the nurses. About time! GP surgeries don't appear to offer face-to-face appointments with patients in the accustomed manner, so all we need now is our hospitals to do the same for lack of nurses.
At 10.30 this morning, I had to see a nurse at a local surgery, as my own has no nurse. When I got there, there wasn't a single person in the waiting room but the surgery was purportedly open. A surgery with several GPs and nurses but no patients...
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day..
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character
A surgery with several GPs and nurses but no patients...
That's how my GP surgery "works" too.
Every time I drop into the surgery, perhaps to ask something, make a telephone booking- when nobody picks up the phone(!) - deliver or pick up something, the leading GP (the other one only goes in a few hours a week) is always standing amongst the girls in the reception area, chatting and laughing; but, never a single patient in the waiting area.
As for e-consult, I get emails with "advice"; they're dictated by the GP and sent by reception!
OH still has our old GP. I changed because the then principal gp was thorough and very popular; also, this surgery is much closer. MISTAKE.
Once upon a time GPs were, apparently, overworked. And now??? Is it the age of the shirker?
It seems to me that very many GPs, much like politicians, are overusing the nature of COVID to act as suits them. Yes, they've opened their shops, so they're "working"; but, you cannot choose to see them!
They have their grievances, I don't doubt, but who cares about the patients?
It's time the government has sorted out the shortages of GPs? It was their lying that brought about the disaster of brexit, which, "overnight" deprived as of over 4 thousand medics. They're responsible.
OH still has our old GP. I changed because the then principal gp was thorough and very popular; also, this surgery is much closer. MISTAKE.
I'm a bit confused (clarity is important to me, you understand 🤣). Did you leave because your old GP was "thorough and popular" (sense??) or when you moved the then GP at the new surgery was "thorough and popular"? I guess the latter and, obviously, that GP is no longer there?
I can see why you regard it a great mistake.
We all make them...
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day..
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character
Posts
At 10.30 this morning, I had to see a nurse at a local surgery, as my own has no nurse. When I got there, there wasn't a single person in the waiting room but the surgery was purportedly open. A surgery with several GPs and nurses but no patients...
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingNeglect at Home????????????
Every time I drop into the surgery, perhaps to ask something, make a telephone booking- when nobody picks up the phone(!) - deliver or pick up something, the leading GP (the other one only goes in a few hours a week) is always standing amongst the girls in the reception area, chatting and laughing; but, never a single patient in the waiting area.
As for e-consult, I get emails with "advice"; they're dictated by the GP and sent by reception!
OH still has our old GP. I changed because the then principal gp was thorough and very popular; also, this surgery is much closer. MISTAKE.
Once upon a time GPs were, apparently, overworked. And now??? Is it the age of the shirker?
No wonder A&Es are overwhelmed.
Something needs to change.
The government.
They have their grievances, I don't doubt, but who cares about the patients?
It's time the government has sorted out the shortages of GPs? It was their lying that brought about the disaster of brexit, which, "overnight" deprived as of over 4 thousand medics. They're responsible.
A lady called to say she had ACTUALLY seen her GP that morning, who asked her to make an appointment for a repeat visit in 3 days' time.
When she asked the receptionist, she was told, "We only make appointments on the phone." So, she got out her mobile and phoned them there and then!!!!
I'm a bit confused (clarity is important to me, you understand 🤣). Did you leave because your old GP was "thorough and popular" (sense??) or when you moved the then GP at the new surgery was "thorough and popular"? I guess the latter and, obviously, that GP is no longer there?
I can see why you regard it a great mistake.
We all make them...
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingGoodness! FARCE is the word for it. You have to laugh or you'd cry. Is the world going mad??
You guessed right. Sorry about the brevity of my expression.
I wonder which... supermarket accepts GW LOYALTY points?