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Accident & Emeregcny Demand unsustainable...
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Graham_Devon wrote: »If this is true, and you cannot see any doctor at your surgery within 48 hours, then write a complaint. The surgery is not fulfilling it's contract.
Graham, I think it's normal.
If one of my kids is ill I'll bully them into the GP's.
If I'm ill I can't be arsed with arguing with receptionists - I just go and sit in the drop in centre for a few hours.0 -
Graham, I think it's normal.
If one of my kids is ill I'll bully them into the GP's.
If I'm ill I can't be arsed with arguing with receptionists - I just go and sit in the drop in centre for a few hours.
This is not my experience. I have been offered 2-3 weeks time if I ask to see a specific GP at a particular time of day. But if I respond that its more urgent than that I have always been offered a sooner appointment with a different GP or a less convenient time.
Also, if I say I need to see a GP more urgently I have always found one of the GPs will see me after their appointments have finished the same day.
Receptionists have a job to do and patients do need to be reasonable. Pretending everything is urgent when its not is as unhelpful in a GP's clinic as it is in an A&E.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
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This is not my experience. I have been offered 2-3 weeks time if I ask to see a specific GP at a particular time of day. But if I respond that its more urgent than that I have always been offered a sooner appointment with a different GP or a less convenient time.
Also, if I say I need to see a GP more urgently I have always found one of the GPs will see me after their appointments have finished the same day.
Receptionists have a job to do and patients do need to be reasonable. Pretending everything is urgent when its not is as unhelpful in a GP's clinic as it is in an A&E.
That mirrors my families experience we can, if need be usually get an appointment on the same day if necessary. Our own GP will usually fit us in if they are actually on site or not we would be offered an alternative. We don't waste our GPs time so I guess it works both ways.
I fit is routine or follow visit then we can book forward.
I know my mothers surgery are very funny and will only provide appointments within 48hours - I guess so they can show they are hitting their targets."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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