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Alex has had braces on her teeth and, if they have been removed, that might make her look a bit different. She’s also got extensions. To be honest, I haven’t noticed any marked difference in her appearance.
 
Koala said:
I would love to be a fly on the wall regarding the demographic of a general day in a GP’s surgery.
My mother in law lives in hers , funnily enough she’s not far off 90.
I remember chatting to a GP years ago when he found out I was a nurse and he said most of those visitors needn’t not be there.
No surprise it’s so difficult to get an appointment now, that was over 20 years ago btw.
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Hubby rang GP 3 days in a row at 8.30 to be in a queue,call dropped and when he rang back straight away there were no appointments. He ended up ringing and pressing for "other" and asked the receptionist for a doctor to call him. No she just read the letter re a CT scan he'd had. Now what medical experience did she have???
He ended up making an appointment on line for a telephone appointment for three weeks later.
They are having an extension being built and the pharmacist told me they are taking on a further 2000 patients,heaven knows how that's going to pan out.
 
Patsy said:
Hubby rang GP 3 days in a row at 8.30 to be in a queue,call dropped and when he rang back straight away there were no appointments. He ended up ringing and pressing for "other" and asked the receptionist for a doctor to call him. No she just read the letter re a CT scan he'd had. Now what medical experience did she have???
He ended up making an appointment on line for a telephone appointment for three weeks later.
They are having an extension being built and the pharmacist told me they are taking on a further 2000 patients,heaven knows how that's going to pan out.
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What a farce! Your poor husband.
GP services are becoming impossible to access. None of those currently training want to be GPs, many of those currently working as GPs don’t want to be there or only work part time.
There are insufficient GPs to provide adequate cover across the country.
When people think of the NHS they mainly think of hospitals, but for most of us our main experience of it is supposed to be the GP.
When the NHS last had a sufficiency of GPs was in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s been in decline ever since and successive governments and NHS managements have blithely ignored it. The result is GP surgeries with too many patients and not enough doctors. Reception staff turnover has sped up, so who knows how much training the person you (eventually) speak to may have had.
The knock-on consequence is that more people have no choice but to turn up at A&E for help.
Every bit of the NHS is at breaking point, it seems to me… and it’s such a sacred cow that there are no real debates about how we turn things around. Nobody is allowed to question the services that are offered and how they are funded. So we are doomed to keep throwing money at it, without understanding what will bring the most benefit to patients and indeed staff.
 
maymorganlondon said:
What a farce! Your poor husband.
GP services are becoming impossible to access. None of those currently training want to be GPs, many of those currently working as GPs don’t want to be there or only work part time.
There are insufficient GPs to provide adequate cover across the country.
When people think of the NHS they mainly think of hospitals, but for most of us our main experience of it is supposed to be the GP.
When the NHS last had a sufficiency of GPs was in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s been in decline ever since and successive governments and NHS managements have blithely ignored it. The result is GP surgeries with too many patients and not enough doctors. Reception staff turnover has sped up, so who knows how much training the person you (eventually) speak to may have had.
The knock-on consequence is that more people have no choice but to turn up at A&E for help.
Every bit of the NHS is at breaking point, it seems to me… and it’s such a sacred cow that there are no real debates about how we turn things around. Nobody is allowed to question the services that are offered and how they are funded. So we are doomed to keep throwing money at it, without understanding what will bring the most benefit to patients and indeed staff.
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Everything you say is so true and it's no wonder A&E is engulfed.
Hubby contracted COVID last week and due to him being "at risk" and he isn't, as the GP he finally spoke to said 90% of men his age would have some hardening of the arteries and the anomaly on his liver was a cyst which ,apparently, is quite common.
Anyway due to this he was sent some lateral flow tests and reported his positive test. He got a text back saying he might be contacted by them to offer an anti viral medication. This morning (Easter Monday) he had a telephone call from our local hospital and after a chat regarding how he was feeling etc he told them although he is still testing positive he was feeling better. He was then told if he starts to feel worse to contact his GP(?) or dial 11.
 
Patsy said:
Hubby rang GP 3 days in a row at 8.30 to be in a queue,call dropped and when he rang back straight away there were no appointments. He ended up ringing and pressing for "other" and asked the receptionist for a doctor to call him. No she just read the letter re a CT scan he'd had. Now what medical experience did she have???
He ended up making an appointment on line for a telephone appointment for three weeks later.
They are having an extension being built and the pharmacist told me they are taking on a further 2000 patients,heaven knows how that's going to pan out.
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Sounds just like my surgery
 
I have written before on another thread, my late wife, who was an A&E matron in some of the big hospitals in the East and West Midlands for many years, and gave her whole career to looking after people and the NHS, was essentially finished off by the negligence of our local GP surgery. The GP at the time did everything she could to avoid coming out to see my wife or to offer her the option of being brought into the surgery by me, misdiagnosed her symptoms I had clearly pointed out were sepsis related in my view, and then prescribed her packet antibiotics for cellulitis. 20 days later also my wife was dead from sepsis at 57.

Receptionists at GP surgeries now seem to have taken on the role of surrogate doctors in many cases. I have absolutely no desire to tell a receptionist what is wrong with me, let alone go into details of the symptoms. They are there purely to make an appointment for a patient to see a GP - either on a routine or emergency basis. They are NOT there to nor are they qualified to, make assessments on whether they think patients should be seen by a doctor or not. How this appalling system has been allowed to become the norm is bordering on criminal to me.

When my mum, back in the ‘60s, had what was called then a tubal pregnancy - ironing my selfish father’s shirts at home on a weekend when he was down the pub, seeing another woman, or both, her GP, who knew her by first name (as he did all his patients, had a sixth sense she was unwell, rang her, and when he got no answer, went to our flat, looked through the letter box and saw her collapsed on the hall floor. Because of his actions my mum received medical attention in hospital and although close to death, survived. Can you imagine that situation happening today with the sort of multi-GP surgeries we have now where they don’t even know or care who you are when you walk through the door let alone would worry about you outside of the surgery!! That’s if you can even get anywhere near to seeing one at all.

For me, I have absolutely nothing to do with the surgery I felt responsible for certainly giving my wife a more painful death than she would’ve had, had they intervened at the correct time. I dread even walking past the place. If I want to see a GP now I see one privately via BUPA, and pay well over £100 to do that. Fortunately, from my wife’s misfortune, I am currently in a financial position to be able to do that, but many people, of course, cannot do that, and are stuck with this appallingly incompetent system that we have got worse during and beyond the pandemic. I feel the Pandemic has been a godsend for them, as I think they were actively looking for a definitive excuse to push patients further and further away. Nowadays, post her death, I always see a GP privately. I get half an hour with them, they sit and talk to me take an interest in me, and properly investigate anything that may or may not be wrong with me. This used to be, many years ago, the service you’ve got at your local NHS GPs. No longer.
 
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The Duke of Cheese said:
I have written before on another thread, my late wife, who was an A&E matron in some of the big hospitals in the East and West Midlands for many years, and gave her whole career to looking after people and the NHS, was essentially finished off by the negligence of our local GP surgery. The GP at the time did everything she could to avoid coming out to see my wife or to offer her the option of being brought into the surgery by me, misdiagnosed her symptoms I had clearly pointed out were sepsis related in my view, and then prescribed her packet antibiotics for cellulitis. 20 days later also my wife was dead from sepsis at 57.

Receptionists at GP surgeries now seem to have taken on the role of surrogate doctors in many cases. I have absolutely no desire to tell a receptionist what is wrong with me, let alone go into details of the symptoms. They are there purely to make an appointment for a patient to see a GP - either on a routine or emergency basis. They are NOT there to nor are they qualified to, make assessments on whether they think patients should be seen by a doctor or not. How this appalling system has been allowed to become the norm is bordering on criminal to me.

When my mum, back in the ‘60s, had what was called then a tubal pregnancy - ironing my selfish father’s shirts at home on a weekend when he was down the pub, seeing another woman, or both, her GP, who knew her by first name (as he did all his patients, had a sixth sense she was unwell, rang her, and when he got no answer, went to our flat, looked through the letter box and saw her collapsed on the hall floor. Because of his actions my mum received medical attention in hospital and although close to death, survived. Can you imagine that situation happening today with the sort of multi-GP surgeries we have now where they don’t even know or care who you are when you walk through the door let alone would worry about you outside of the surgery!! That’s if you can even get anywhere near to seeing one at all.

For me, I have absolutely nothing to do with the surgery I felt responsible for certainly giving my wife a more painful death than she would’ve had, had they intervened at the correct time. I dread even walking past the place. If I want to see a GP now I see one privately via BUPA, and pay well over £100 to do that. Fortunately, from my wife’s misfortune, I am currently in a financial position to be able to do that, but many people, of course, cannot do that, and are stuck with this appallingly incompetent system that we have got worse during and beyond the pandemic. I feel the Pandemic has been a godsend for them, as I think they were actively looking for a definitive excuse to push patients further and further away. Nowadays, post her death, I always see a GP privately. I get half an hour with them, they sit and talk to me take an interest in me, and properly investigate anything that may or may not be wrong with me. This used to be, many years ago, the service you’ve got at your local NHS GPs. No longer.
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I can't imagine how horrible it must feel passing your former GP surgery. Both the anger and the pain of your loss. I've contemplated doing the same concerning paying to see a private GP, for exactly the same reasons. Quality time with a GP who listens properly is probably the biggest asset the health service used to have. How much less of a mess would patients and the NHS be in if there were enough GPs for a longer appointment?

Sadly, nowadays some people don't know how to behave and are aggressive and even violent towards those trying to assist them. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, fire fighters, police are all seen as fair game. So in a way I feel that fear and lacknof protection in the face of bad actors has materially harmed primary care.
 
The Duke of Cheese said:
I have written before on another thread, my late wife, who was an A&E matron in some of the big hospitals in the East and West Midlands for many years, and gave her whole career to looking after people and the NHS, was essentially finished off by the negligence of our local GP surgery. The GP at the time did everything she could to avoid coming out to see my wife or to offer her the option of being brought into the surgery by me, misdiagnosed her symptoms I had clearly pointed out were sepsis related in my view, and then prescribed her packet antibiotics for cellulitis. 20 days later also my wife was dead from sepsis at 57.

Receptionists at GP surgeries now seem to have taken on the role of surrogate doctors in many cases. I have absolutely no desire to tell a receptionist what is wrong with me, let alone go into details of the symptoms. They are there purely to make an appointment for a patient to see a GP - either on a routine or emergency basis. They are NOT there to nor are they qualified to, make assessments on whether they think patients should be seen by a doctor or not. How this appalling system has been allowed to become the norm is bordering on criminal to me.

When my mum, back in the ‘60s, had what was called then a tubal pregnancy - ironing my selfish father’s shirts at home on a weekend when he was down the pub, seeing another woman, or both, her GP, who knew her by first name (as he did all his patients, had a sixth sense she was unwell, rang her, and when he got no answer, went to our flat, looked through the letter box and saw her collapsed on the hall floor. Because of his actions my mum received medical attention in hospital and although close to death, survived. Can you imagine that situation happening today with the sort of multi-GP surgeries we have now where they don’t even know or care who you are when you walk through the door let alone would worry about you outside of the surgery!! That’s if you can even get anywhere near to seeing one at all.

For me, I have absolutely nothing to do with the surgery I felt responsible for certainly giving my wife a more painful death than she would’ve had, had they intervened at the correct time. I dread even walking past the place. If I want to see a GP now I see one privately via BUPA, and pay well over £100 to do that. Fortunately, from my wife’s misfortune, I am currently in a financial position to be able to do that, but many people, of course, cannot do that, and are stuck with this appallingly incompetent system that we have got worse during and beyond the pandemic. I feel the Pandemic has been a godsend for them, as I think they were actively looking for a definitive excuse to push patients further and further away. Nowadays, post her death, I always see a GP privately. I get half an hour with them, they sit and talk to me take an interest in me, and properly investigate anything that may or may not be wrong with me. This used to be, many years ago, the service you’ve got at your local NHS GPs. No longer.
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Similar situation in Italy. The dragon, decide-all receptionist, the care-not GP. Fortunately, I rarely have to contact them.
 
In my opinion any kind of "work" is pretty obvious to everyone and I don't think it makes anyone look younger it just makes them look weirder, and the more "work" they have done the more weird they look. I am 54, I haven't had any work done, I probably look 54 and I am absolutely 100% certain my face doesn't look weird. I really hope this obsession with having "work" done becomes a thing of the past. It is ridiculous, there are young people in their 20s with frozen, puffy faces and pumped up fishy lips, they look hideous, in my opinion.
 

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