** Grrrrr . . . Doctors!!! **

Fire_Fox

So they were only not taking calls for half a day? I don't see how your repeat is so urgent this afternoon but were not this morning and won't be tomorrow morning. Unless they do that cunning trick when you can only reorder and collect in a very narrow window right before you run out (my last practice did this).

Glad tincture of Juniperus communis is helping. :beer:

codger

Fire_Fox wrote: »

So they were only not taking calls for half a day? I don't see how your repeat is so urgent this afternoon but were not this morning and won't be tomorrow morning. Unless they do that cunning trick when you can only reorder and collect in a very narrow window right before you run out (my last practice did this).

Glad tincture of Juniperus communis is helping. :beer:

It, er, wasn't. Urgent. It was so-oo non-urgent that I only noticed at lunchtime that David Cameron had done yet another U turn, which reminded me that I loathe all politicians, which then reminded me that such might have an adverse effect on my blood pressure, which in turn reminded me to check my medication, which then prompted me to ring the surgery to be told to ring after 5pm, which then led to the discovery that ringing after 5pm would achieve Absolutely... Sod... All... because 'twas then revealed that the service I wanted always and ever shuts down exactly 30 minutes before 5pm every day, all of which then cumulatively conspired to remind me that I was now in blue-light emergency class urgent need of an entire sodding month's supply of blood pressure treatment to be consumed by dinner.

Fortunately, it turns out that Alternative Medicine is still the best. As you and Valli rightly say: tincture of Juniper communis cures all.

Considering the retail price of it now that there's been another Government U-turn, though I'd better not think of that otherwise the ol' pressure will riiiiiiiise again, it'd be far better for Juniper communis to be supplied on the NHS rather than all this expensive stuff from Roche and Pfizer et al. I'll buy my own lemons, if that helps.

There's also the additional convenience for the patient that, unlike the situation with the NHS, one doesn't have to register / have a pin number / have an access code / have a Patient Number in order to ring the pub and ask Agnes if she'll have one ready on the bar for me when I come in. And finally -- and best of all -- pubs don't ever seem to close for 'staff training'. Why is that, one wonders?

Right. Your round.

Valli

Have to agree that repeat prescription systems seem to be becoming unduly complex. At one time I could log on to the website, order mine and have it collected by the pharmacy to pick up.

Now I need to regiser. As DD also needs repeats I tried to register HER but they won't hand over the sodding pin without PHOTO ID...


One day, not many years from now, confused old people will be wandering the streets; unable to access any services, or their bank accounts, because they have all forgotten their PINS...

*sigh*

and I have no Juniper to hand...

codger

Valli wrote: »

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One day, not many years from now, confused old people will be wandering the streets; unable to access any services, or their bank accounts, because they have all forgotten their PINS...

*sigh*

and I have no Juniper to hand...

That day arrived some while back. I've lost track of the number of friends about whom it is said, he / she isn't very good on his / her pins.

I never quite fathomed that out until now. Personally, I'm fed up with bloody numbers. Pre-computers, all I needed to know was my N.I. number. Then computers came along and life was going to be oh-so-much simpler and easier. Yeah, right. It will be a good day when free Firefox transplants are offered on the NHS, that way I need only remember a master password and then whenever a PIN or password is required, my brain will automatically come up with the right one.

Today's number is, of course, the worst of all. It's that of the medical practice which shut down to practise best practice yesterday and is now back but so far is entirely unobtainable after eight tries and no, I am not going to 'press 5 to use ring back, there will be a charge for this service'.

Time for more juniper, methinks. Sorry you're out of a supply but if there's an Aldi nearby I can definitely recommend its own-brand offering. I can confirm that it has won more awards for quality and customer satisfaction than even the very best best-practice NHS practice, especially as it's readily to hand, doesn't need to see my passport before I open it, and has never yet required me to fork out for ring back.

LimeLight

I registered at Boots and they order and pick the prescriptions up from the surgery and I just pop in the pharmacy to collect the million and one tablets I'm on.

Faith177

My doctors will only accept written perscripton requests there is no e-mail facility. They are only open from 9-12 2-5 Mon-Fri. No weekends no evening appointments.

They don't do emergency appointments unless the doctor agrees and I am yet to have 1 agreed.

My surgery is useless and I'm now looking for one that is actually open occasionally!

battleborn

Why are the receptionists in Doctors surgery's so miserable.

eyelinerprincess

Sounds like my local doctors.

Made the mistake of being ill on the first day back after the New Year. Spent about half an hour from 8.15-8.45am either listening to the phone ring four times then cut off, or a recorded message telling me that they were open that day from 8.15am, please call back then.

Tigsteroonie

Online? Email? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

We can only order repeat prescriptions by writing down the request and taking that to the surgery during its opening hours. Out of hours, the building is completely shuttered (well, this is East Manchester!) without even a slot for a mailbox. And if we want to phone to discuss the prescription, it has to be between 11 & 12.

Thank goodness for our local Lloyds Pharmacy and their repeat prescription service.

On a more positive note, though, it seems that if I'm prepared to dial & re-dial & re-dial ad nauseum from 0829 onwards, I can generally get though to get an emergency same-day appointment for the little one. Not for me or Marley, but they do consider children as emergencies.