My knee is fucked. Old Age has caught up with meI 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.
Fucking disgraceI called my GP practice in the second week of Feb and the earliest appointment I could get was 26th March. 6 weeks!
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).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.
That's a shambles mate. Not fit for purpose. Emigrate.I called my GP practice in the second week of Feb and the earliest appointment I could get was 26th March. 6 weeks!
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.The NHS saved my life in 2020 and 2022. They’re drastically underfunded.
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 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.
I took your advice, my piles have never been better.GP? Pfft, wait till you try the dentist …