NHS=Negligent Health Service

I think I have said this in here before, but if you genuinely feel a face to face consultation in the very near future is necessary, and it is pushed back or refused, you need to say you wish the fact they are refusing it to be entered on your notes as a time stamp should something untoward occur to you. They don't like that as it confers liability to the practice if you keel over or the future shows a timely intervention could have saved you suffering or worse. There's something in the English psyche that puts medical people and solicitors on pedestals when many actually need putting in the dock. Record the conversation for posterity. You know, "for training and monitoring purposes".
 
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Shoza said:
I do support nurses striking and generally agree the NHS is broken and needs reform (for happier employees of the NHS and a better service to its public) but also had this exact issue.

3 times needing to see the GP since summer 2021 and on all occasions I made it in to the practice (after much argument from reception) the place was completely empty.

On 2 occasions in 2021-early 2022 when my son (born February 2021) needed to see a GP I was unable to get an appointment at all and 111 (through their own clear frustration) referred me to the local Hospital A&E which was a waste of NHS resources when he (1) had an ear infection and (2) a bad bout of flu that the A&E doctor noted was serious (temp over 40) but didn’t need attendance at A&E and went off to query why 111 sent us there and then came back to apologise when he found out.

There is DEFINITELY something not working with GP services.
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So my phone GP appointment was on Friday, between 8-9am, put off work while I waited, and waited, and waited. No call came. Had to go to meetings so missed the GPs call at 11am, call surgery back at 2pm when I saw the missed call and they said the GP will contact me later, receive a call back from reception at 5pm with a new appointment phone consultation booked in for two weeks time.

I can't believe how utterly useless they are.
 
Oh, get off your high horses, it would be better to go to a vet than seek the current misdiagnosis and resultant appalling death and compensation rates that NHS doctors constantly deliver whilst their trusts are uttering the usual placatory "lessons will be learned" spiel.

NHS pays £39M to girl who had limbs amputated after hospital mistake​


www.gbnews.uk

NHS pays £39M to girl who had limbs amputated after hospital mistake

The girl was initially discharged and given paracetamol before her parents brought her back to A&E just hours later
www.gbnews.uk www.gbnews.uk

Shropshire hospitals have had a long standing, basically criminal, negligence record resulting in dozens of infant deaths. The NHS employs doctors with dodgy qualifications and who can only barely speak the King's English.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Oh, get off your high horses, it would be better to go to a vet than seek the current misdiagnosis and resultant appalling death and compensation rates that NHS doctors constantly deliver whilst their trusts are uttering the usual placatory "lessons will be learned" spiel.

NHS pays £39M to girl who had limbs amputated after hospital mistake​


www.gbnews.uk

NHS pays £39M to girl who had limbs amputated after hospital mistake

The girl was initially discharged and given paracetamol before her parents brought her back to A&E just hours later
www.gbnews.uk www.gbnews.uk

Shropshire hospitals have had a long standing, basically criminal, negligence record resulting in dozens of infant deaths. The NHS employs doctors with dodgy qualifications and who can only barely speak the King's English.
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You tell someone to get off their high horse and immediately climb on your soap box?
 
tamzzy said:
Haha yeah. I'm one of the (many) ICU registrars around lol. Must've crossed paths at some point ;)
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Most probably have. I'm a porter, the lifeblood of the hospital that keeps everything running and without whom the whole thing would crumble to ruin and dust. Being a porter though means you're working everywhere and with everyone. Was in Pod 6 for an hour yesterday, then a few hours up in AMU before doing the final 8 hours in A&E CT.
 
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ColdAsIce said:
I’ll fight for the nurses and specialists/ hospital doctors but the current crop of gps are an embarrassment to the NHS.
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And yet when you look at the evidence of where the work is happening (both in person and by phone), primary care is the most functional area of the health service currently.

The fact that they are small entities means they have altered ways of working to get the work done. The flip side is potentially there are some places that haven’t adapted and are drowning, but that is not the normal. It ain’t perfect by any means, it has been done differently to get people through the systems, but the numbers who are seen is higher than it’s ever been, just look at the link to the IFS data a few posts ago.

There are not anywhere near the staff numbers to provide what people might want, but look to HMG and it’s risible planning for decades for the cause of that. It falls very much at their feet and not at the hard working doctors and nurses.
 
heeeed said:
There are not anywhere near the staff numbers to provide what people might want, but look to HMG and it’s risible planning for decades for the cause of that. It falls very much at their feet and not at the hard working doctors and nurses.
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Very much this. It is a failing of those at the top, but they will use their political platform to deflect blame elsewhere.


With regards to phone consultations, I personally have found this to be better for access to a GP as a worker, but I'm not sure there is the best way to provide healthcare in general.
 
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