Flaming doctors surgeries

cozzie

I live in a smallish village, with about 3000 residents and a doctor's practice that has 6/7 doctors yet the waiting time is now 2 weeks from making an appointment to actually being seen. The laugh is that they have closed the Saturday surgery as: "There was little demand for it"!

gravitytolls

ours too cozzie. I phoned a few weeks ago for a sit and wait saturday morning slot, only to be told it was now based 15 miles away. I explained my cars brakes had just been condemned at the mot centre and was there another option?

The nurse snottily informed me,
'you can't expect Dr's to come out to babies with sore ears, they only come out for chest pains. Surely you must have a friend or neighbour you could ask.'

Charming. I do have friends, neighbours and relatives of course. neighbour, mother, mother in law don't drive (actually my mum does now as she passed last Thurs - hooray, well done mum), and I felt the only friend who wasn't working and had a vehicel available would have needed to bring her 2 children, to collect me, and my 2 youngest, whilst the next 2 went to the neighbours, and tehn spend at least 2 hours waiting to be seen.

Stinky system.

Pennywise

Zaphod_Beblebrocks wrote:

A week later accompanied the wife to the local NHS hospital, what a difference,one nurse to collect notes from book in,one to call from sub waiting room to real waiting area and one to take notes from outside the room into the room for the consultant,surely they could organise it a bit better and free up staff to do other duties?

I can beat that.

Just come back from an appointment at local out patients. Two receptionists having a good chat, four nurses/auxiliaries (1 to call from reception to room, 1 to call into room, and 2 standing about inside the consulting room). But the funny thing was that I was the only person there -the out-patients area was completely empty and despite being 5 minutes early for my appointment, I was still 10 minutes late going in - no other patient came out whilst I was waiting.

There were another four nurses/auxiliaries standing around near another consulting room, so a total of 10 staff for two consultants with virtually no patients.

Whilst I was waiting I also made another observation - if the nurses are so busy, no time for lunch, physically demanding job, etc., why were all 8 of them grossly overweight - it was the two receptionists (with a less demanding "sitting" job) that were of a more normal size.

And even with the gross over-staffing, they still managed to make mistakes writing up the notes, which the receptionist luckily spotted before I left!