GP Registration Out of Area / Bipolar - What Would You Do

NotMyRealNameReally

I'm a longstanding member of this forum but posting anonymously due to the sensitive nature of this post.

My partner has been diagnosed with bipolar recently, we had to go privately in the end as the NHS were next to useless.  He has not been on meds long but is stable and long may it continue.

His GP are quite hardline, they won't agree to shared care prescribing, they even refused to prescribe sleeping tablets that the CMHT Psychiatrist recommended.

Here's our choices:

1. Stay with the current GP

2. Move to another GP out of area (about 4 miles away) who will agree shared care but have said that as out of area can't do home visits or District Nurse visits in the future if these are needed for any reason.

What would you do? Is #2 really a problem?

Thanks

NMRNR

itsthelittlethings

It depends how old you are/ what other physical ailments you have are as to whether home visits/ district nurse is a concern. If things got bad enough that home visits were needed for the bipolar ime it would not be a GP doing them.

NotMyRealNameReally

No other physical ailments.  Age - just 58.  Do GPs even do home visits nowadays, what sort of situation would there be to warrant a home visit, same go for District Nurse.  Surely if it was wound dressing etc I could just bundle my partner into a taxi to get them to the surgery for it.

It's BP2 btw so no psychosis.

NotMyRealNameReally

We'd be saving at least £100 pcm from getting prescriptions through the NHS so in the scenario that my aprtner needed wound dressings etc or other things that District Nurses do in the future we could get someone privately to do them.

marcia_

 I would move GP. They rarely do home visits, just for the elderly, infirm and people so sick they can not physically get themselves to the practice in any way.