doctors making it as awkward as possible to be seen

poppy10_2

lana22 wrote: »

Do you pay for a temp to cover you when you go on holiday? No, you use your entitled annual leave like every other employed person.
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That's pretty disingenous Lana,it's hardly the same thing.

Georgie4

In my surgery you have to phone at 9.00am and then a nurse practitioner calls you back within an hour and decides over the phone if you need to see a doctor at all !!! I'd love to know how many patients have died as a result of this lunacy - but the patient seems to be the last person that most doctors surgeries seem to care about ! It all seems to be what works best for the doctor - the only thing to do is vote with your feet but to be honest in my area they are all as bad as each other and the only people who can get an appointment are those that are elderly or unemployed as they can turn up at any time !! As a taxpayer who is actually paying for the service this really makes me mad

Georgie4

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

In our area the out of hours is dealt with by a central surgery that just opens out of hours. Again they are very good at getting you in to see the doctor (but it is harder to get a doctor out to visit) but we prefer going to the doctors anyway. The surgery is about 10 mins by car. I do know some people who use this out of hours service instead of taking time off work to see the doctor, its a bit cheeky but they don't seem to mind. We have only used it for the kids if we had to and the service is good.
These days it seems you have to accept you won't see the same doctor each time you go.

ali x

To be honest I don't see why it is a cheek using out of hours in this way - people who are working and who are actually paying for the service and subsidising those who do not work should be able to see a doctor outside of working hours - not everyone can easily leave work to see a doctor