Went to a GP walkin centre, not had to use one of these place that often and it was an eye opener, normal GP surgery is quite nice, this walkin centre is understandably quite busy to the point where quite a few people were standing in the waiting room. There was quite a long wait and looking around it seemed that despite being busy there actually shouldn't have been a need for all these people to be standing, the main issue here was down to one thing: chavs.
One family was making a bunch of noise seemed to be a mother, two teenage daughters, toddler sat on the lap of one of them.... Patient next to them gets up when called, girl takes toddler off her lap and places it in the now spare seat... so now they're occupying 4 seats. When they get called it seems it is teenager and toddler who get up to go see the GP, 'mum' is actually 'granny' why she needs to be there or the other girl isn't quite clear but at least 4 seats are now free and some of the older people who have been standing can sit down.
Similar thing happens with two women and three kids, they manage to take up an entire row in front of an old man who doesn't look too comfortable standing - seems the trip is part of their shopping trip or something. The one woman gets called and takes her kid in then gets back and all five leave the waiting room. I mean WTF - there were old people stood up and the other woman could easily have met her friend later or something.
Was just a farce, I don't see any need for granny and sister to come along with mother and daughter or for best mate nd her kids to occupy another bunch of chairs when the waiting room is obviously rammed full of people who are mostly sick enough that they wanted to wait 2 hours to see a GP today. If it is like that on most days they should probably have a rule re: having only one person to accompany each patient.
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One family was making a bunch of noise seemed to be a mother, two teenage daughters, toddler sat on the lap of one of them.... Patient next to them gets up when called, girl takes toddler off her lap and places it in the now spare seat... so now they're occupying 4 seats. When they get called it seems it is teenager and toddler who get up to go see the GP, 'mum' is actually 'granny' why she needs to be there or the other girl isn't quite clear but at least 4 seats are now free and some of the older people who have been standing can sit down.
Similar thing happens with two women and three kids, they manage to take up an entire row in front of an old man who doesn't look too comfortable standing - seems the trip is part of their shopping trip or something. The one woman gets called and takes her kid in then gets back and all five leave the waiting room. I mean WTF - there were old people stood up and the other woman could easily have met her friend later or something.
Was just a farce, I don't see any need for granny and sister to come along with mother and daughter or for best mate nd her kids to occupy another bunch of chairs when the waiting room is obviously rammed full of people who are mostly sick enough that they wanted to wait 2 hours to see a GP today. If it is like that on most days they should probably have a rule re: having only one person to accompany each patient.
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