Getting a GP appointment

I decided to go private this week with work. The private plan includes existing conditions. The health care plan was £870. If done privately it’s over £2000. After 4 months of frustration with my practice/GP’s, waiting 4 months since November for 2 Physiotherapy appointments, the 2nd appointment is in April, not being given an MRI scan on my knee, I’ve given up.
My knee is fucked. Old Age has caught up with me
i was told to make an appointment with the doctor and ask for anti inflammatories and get on the list for a scan
I rang them on Wednesday and they haven’t an appointment for over three weeks, so I was told to ring at 8am on the morning of a day I can get there for a same day appointment
 
Pretty much most of the crap people go to GP’s or walk ins with would be answered by a simple google search. Honestly. We’ve been spoiled in this country with our access to services. For some folk every single symptom must be diagnosed. I see people with snapped nails, splinters, sore throats for 3hrs. Kids with rashes that starts 30mins ago after playing in the park. These things should be common sense but the free and easy access to services has made folk lazy when it comes to self care.
There is a total lack of common sense in a rather large part of the general public. It appears people are more educated but less intelligent. People turning up to Emergency Departments with snapped acrylic nails, shampoo in the eye, feeling low, bad reaction to marijuana, pissed etc, etc. They take time away from clinicians that really should be spent on patients who need their time (there are examples on this thread).

GPs are on their arse with the deluge of people asking for advice. I know GPs who are trying to get jobs in EDs just to get away from surgeries.
 
The NHS saved my life in 2020 and 2022. They’re drastically underfunded.
They've been drastically underfunded for years. My MIL had an Aortic aneurism in 2009, they put her on a fucking waiting list for an op, two months later it popped, she died instantly. She should've been operated on immediately.
 
There is a total lack of common sense in a rather large part of the general public. It appears people are more educated but less intelligent. People turning up to Emergency Departments with snapped acrylic nails, shampoo in the eye, feeling low, bad reaction to marijuana, pissed etc, etc. They take time away from clinicians that really should be spent on patients who need their time (there are examples on this thread).

GPs are on their arse with the deluge of people asking for advice. I know GPs who are trying to get jobs in EDs just to get away from surgeries.
There have always been idiots who go to the doctor for no reason. To balance it out, how many people aren’t going to the doctor when they really need to, because of the current waiting times? Are more people going to the doctors unnecessarily now than they were 10 or 20 years ago? Or is the real issue 12 years of underfunding? Perhaps there are more people going to certain areas of the NHS because another part of it is on its arse. Not to mention the role of social care.
 
There have always been idiots who go to the doctor for no reason. To balance it out, how many people aren’t going to the doctor when they really need to, because of the current waiting times? Are more people going to the doctors unnecessarily now than they were 10 or 20 years ago? Or is the real issue 12 years of underfunding? Perhaps there are more people going to certain areas of the NHS because another part of it is on its arse. Not to mention the role of social care.
Similar with getting prescription for 50ppack of paracetamol that probably costs the nhs £10, it’s not the funding it’s how it’s used and wasted, many times I’ve been to the chemist and I’m the only one paying for my prescription. In lockdown A&E was empty and rightly so no one in with as stubbed toe etc, it’s showed how much people waste in this country, why is IVF and sexy changes paid for by the NHS? Thats not what it’s for, it’s for life saving stuff.
 
There have always been idiots who go to the doctor for no reason. To balance it out, how many people aren’t going to the doctor when they really need to, because of the current waiting times? Are more people going to the doctors unnecessarily now than they were 10 or 20 years ago? Or is the real issue 12 years of underfunding? Perhaps there are more people going to certain areas of the NHS because another part of it is on its arse. Not to mention the role of social care.
Not sure if it's underfunding or the funds being misused.
 
Similar with getting prescription for 50ppack of paracetamol that probably costs the nhs £10, it’s not the funding it’s how it’s used and wasted, many times I’ve been to the chemist and I’m the only one paying for my prescription. In lockdown A&E was empty and rightly so no one in with as stubbed toe etc, it’s showed how much people waste in this country, why is IVF and sexy changes paid for by the NHS? Thats not what it’s for, it’s for life saving stuff.
Mental health beyond your capacity for thought is it?
 
Similar with getting prescription for 50ppack of paracetamol that probably costs the nhs £10, it’s not the funding it’s how it’s used and wasted, many times I’ve been to the chemist and I’m the only one paying for my prescription. In lockdown A&E was empty and rightly so no one in with as stubbed toe etc, it’s showed how much people waste in this country, why is IVF and sexy changes paid for by the NHS? Thats not what it’s for, it’s for life saving stuff.

The NHS as a bulk buyer is not buying 50p paracetamol for £10. It will be buying them for pennies. If a patient uses a prescription to buy paracetamol (unlikely) they will pay £10 and that would be profit to the NHS and others in the Health supply chain.

You are not the only one paying for your prescriptions.

Apart from wondering why you were touring A&E’s during lockdown - I presume it is a hobby? I would suggest that during a time when people were confined to their homes this would see a reduction in activity that leads to accidents - driving, working etc.

Enhancing the quality of peoples lives is also a health goal. Unless you are one of these miserable cunts who enjoy others being miserable.
 
Mental health beyond your capacity for thought is it?
Nope but not everything is mental health, i knew that would get dragged up because it’s used for everything now, why should the tax payer fund IVF? You want kids then pay private if youre that desperate. Mental health is like the new bad back, it’s the easy get out clause, like everything needs a label. Little Johnny has ADHD he’s not a bad lad, no he fucking is because you’ve let him do what the fuck he wants most of his life. We are funding sex changes yet having to raise money for charities for cancer research! If your that desperate to have your dick chopped off pay for it, or just say your a women and get on with it, that’s allowed now isn’t it?
 
I have a telephone appt on tuesday to review recent tests and make a plan , seems fine to me , i have had tests within a few days , a visit to the hosp six days after seeing a nurse , bloods at the surgery , health check , bp monitor on and ecg at the surgery all within a month , very efficient way to use the nurses and dr i think
 
Nope but not everything is mental health, i knew that would get dragged up because it’s used for everything now, why should the tax payer fund IVF? You want kids then pay private if youre that desperate. Mental health is like the new bad back, it’s the easy get out clause, like everything needs a label. Little Johnny has ADHD he’s not a bad lad, no he fucking is because you’ve let him do what the fuck he wants most of his life. We are funding sex changes yet having to raise money for charities for cancer research! If your that desperate to have your dick chopped off pay for it, or just say your a women and get on with it, that’s allowed now isn’t it?
Not one of lives empathetic people then, ffs
 
The NHS as a bulk buyer is not buying 50p paracetamol for £10. It will be buying them for pennies. If a patient uses a prescription to buy paracetamol (unlikely) they will pay £10 and that would be profit to the NHS and others in the Health supply chain.

You are not the only one paying for your prescriptions.

Apart from wondering why you were touring A&E’s during lockdown - I presume it is a hobby? I would suggest that during a time when people were confined to their homes this would see a reduction in activity that leads to accidents - driving, working etc.

Enhancing the quality of peoples lives is also a health goal. Unless you are one of these miserable cunts who enjoy others being miserable.
In lockdown I was working and talking to nurses and paramedics so I know what was going on, I didn’t say I was the only one paying but in oldham every time I go in it certainly seems like it.
Theres anew drug coming out for fat people now to lose weight, so that’ll be another cost and excuse for people to do what the fuck they want because the tax payer will fund their excessive lifestyle.
 

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