Getting a GP appointment

Blue Maverick said:
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.
www.scotsman.com

Revealed: The cost of free paracetamol to NHS Scotland

Scotland's 14 health boards have spent more than £57 million on providing free paracetamol since charging for prescriptions was scrapped by the SNP government in 2011.
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pharmaceutical-journal.com

NHS bill for paracetamol in England tops £70m

The NHS spent £70m on prescriptions for paracetamol in England in the past financial year, according to figures revealed to MPs last week
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If you could reference more recent documents than 2017 you’d find paracetamol is no longer available on prescription in England.
But then that wouldnt suit your rabid nonsense would it?
 
denislawsbackheel said:
If you could reference more recent documents than 2017 you’d find paracetamol is no longer available on prescription in England.
But then that wouldnt suit your rabid nonsense would it?
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I had a bike accident about two years ago and was taken to A&E in an ambulance. Probably didn't need to be but the lovely fella who stopped and helped me insisted I be checked out.

Was given a box of free co-codamol in A&E despite saying I'd be more than happy to pay for it. I thought that was crazy. Wonder how much the NHS spends on stuff like that to give away unnecessarily every year.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Heaton Moor doctors today -

Rang at 8am, someone rang me back at 8.30 and I’ve got an in person appointment at 11.30.

Can’t really argue with that to be fair to them.
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Got a same day appointment at my GP yesterday. No complaints about that at all but the fact you have to phone at exactly 8:30 and keep redialling until you get through seems a bit antiquated. You can’t even phone during the day and book ahead for non-urgent appointments. They told me that there were some available to book online but only for certain services, and when I checked it was only for smears, which aren’t really much use to me.
 
west didsblue said:
Got a same day appointment at my GP yesterday. No complaints about that at all but the fact you have to phone at exactly 8:30 and keep redialling until you get through seems a bit antiquated. You can’t even phone during the day and book ahead for non-urgent appointments. They told me that there were some available to book online but only for certain services, and when I checked it was only for smears, which aren’t really much use to me.
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Dunno, I could do with a refresher on proper arse wiping technique, the mrs keeps moaning about having to clean the sheets.
 
bavarian blue said:
Still waiting for blood test results from 3 weeks ago.
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Coincidentally so was I until this evening. Well not quite three weeks. Maybe a fortnight. But I was in the library earlier, which is in the same building as the doctors, so thought I’d try the old fashioned way and just go and ask them in person.

Sure enough, she got my info up on the computer and said.. yeah the results have been back ages, you’re fine.

Not sure when they’re going to get round to emailing me the results as they said they would.
 
Stephen230 said:
Coincidentally so was I until this evening. Well not quite three weeks. Maybe a fortnight. But I was in the library earlier, which is in the same building as the doctors, so thought I’d try the old fashioned way and just go and ask them in person.

Sure enough, she got my info up on the computer and said.. yeah the results have been back ages, you’re fine.

Not sure when they’re going to get round to emailing me the results as they said they would.
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I found that if there are no irregularities they don’t bother contacting you. Doesn’t stop you worrying and ringing the surgery to check though does it ?
 
Nellies left peg said:
I found that if there are no irregularities they don’t bother contacting you. Doesn’t stop you worrying and ringing the surgery to check though does it ?
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I mean, I wasn’t particularly worried. But if they say they’re going to let you know, I just assumed they would.

If they’d said we’ll be in touch if there’s any concern but if you’ve heard nothing in a week, assume everything’s fine, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought.
 
Impossible if your a white British person, if your a illegal not to worry doctors are available 24/7 at your hotel
 
Went to order my hydrocortisone monthly tablets online last night only to find my Doctors had put a block on me ordering them until I'd had a yearly blood test organised and had rung them. These are pills I'm on through my cancer hospital as the immunotherapy wiped out my cortisone.

Going to be an interesting conversation later today. Withholding pills that keep me alive. I wonder what their thought process was?
 
We need to submit an application through WhatsApp.

It takes about 15 minutes to do it. It's a joke.
The result is an appointment with a nurse or someone else. Usually on the same day to be fair.
However, my elderly in-laws cant work it. So it's pointless. My wife ended up driving to the surgery to ask someone to ring them!!!!!!
 
BimboBob said:
Went to order my hydrocortisone monthly tablets online last night only to find my Doctors had put a block on me ordering them until I'd had a yearly blood test organised and had rung them. These are pills I'm on through my cancer hospital as the immunotherapy wiped out my cortisone.

Going to be an interesting conversation later today. Withholding pills that keep me alive. I wonder what their thought process was?
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can't wait for the update. What a shitshow that is!
 
city2 said:
Impossible if your a white British person, if your a illegal not to worry doctors are available 24/7 at your hotel
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Parody? I ask as on one hand these are all ‘fighting age men’ yet on the other they all need doctors appointments - I’m not sure both are compatible

My doctor surgery is great. It’s on the same road as me and are very accommodating

One of the issues with GPs or lack of is the number coming through(or lack of) and a large amount apparently took retirement post COVID. They were of a certain age, saw it as an increased risk and working conditions had gotten worse
 
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