health check everytime you join new doctors?

kizzie_nikita

hi, i have recently moved home, in to a new are and need to join a new docotors.

Due to one reason or another im terrified of them.

I was wondering, when you have joined a new doctors sugery, have you (after registering) had to have a medical\health check?

I ask this because the last doctors i joined 2 years ago i did, so im wondering if this is the same for everyone?

So each time you have joined a new sugery have you had to do this?

Penny-Pincher!!

Yes usually. They will do weight, height, BP etc as basic and ask about any medical problems.

Di-Dough

I changed Doctors Surgery's in September last year and only received a new Medical Card with my Doctor's name on it.

Di

peachyprice

Usually yes, you do. Our latest one was with the nurse though, not the GP.

ali-t

I changed GP surgery a few months ago and didn't have to do anything. I needed an appt for a repeat prescription but even then wasn't asked anything and didn't get any checks done.

When I joined the one I was previously aligned with, I got health checks and even had to give a urine sample. You could phone and ask to find out.

j.e.j.

LOL I usually hate these too. I think it's the norm these days for doctors surgeries to give new patients a 'registration' appointment with a nurse, where they test your urine sample for diabetes, maybe take your blood pressure, etc. It varies from place to place, - some are easy-going, some a bit more stringent.

If you feel strongly that you don't want one of these registration appointments, then it shouldn't be compulsory. And watch out for things they tell you you 'have to' do. If there's anything you don't feel comfortable with, or don't agree with or consent to, tell them, and/or look for another surgery.

daisiegg

Nope, I moved house recently and changed doctors and didn't have to do anything like this.

kizzie_nikita

Ahh.

See everyone seems to be different.

I'm really hoping i don't, as i don't do well in the doctors, like full on phobia, and i also have a huge thing about my weight and when i tell them i don't want to be weighed it causes alot of arguments with the doctors/nurses so i try to steer clear of doctors.

I'm going to get a form tomorrow, so i guess i will find out then

Thank you for helping everyone!

coinxoperated

My current doctors (absolute WASTE OF SPACE!!) wanted me not only to have a "health check" but also wanted me to produce a urine and poo sample AND have a blood test.

Baring in mind there was nothing wrong with me at the time and no reason for them to request such things. I don't see why they would be bothered about my health anyway, everytime I'm ill I have a 3 week waiting period that I may die in before I get to see a doctor. No wonder so many people don't show up for there appointments. They all keel!

caeler

I've had 3 GPs in the last 8 years. The first one I never met, then I changed surgeries and they wanted to see me. I insisted that they combine it the first time I had a need to visit and they agreed, again I never met that GP either. The latest one I've been with for 2 years and I've not met yet and they've never asked!!

Ida_Notion

I had everything checked as a matter of routine anyway because I was seven months pregnant when we moved and changed doctors, but I don't remember any of the rest of the family having to have any health checks.

These days we're all treated the same way - required to submit to the interrogation of a grumpy receptionist (and you must be ill before 9.30am - succumb to sickness after 9.31 and you have more chance of seeing the Second Coming than a doctor that day), a receptionist who stops just short of demanding that you come into surgery bearing your own valid death certificate if you're to get an appointment.

I get the impression that this is fairly typical