- Oct 17, 2008
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I know I posted about this before, but I can’t find the thread. Anyway, I know some people hate old threads being bounced, so here goes.
I have a skin issue which is worrying me a bit, so I called my GP in the designated time slot to make an appointment. I was triaged by the receptionist, and told a GP would call back within 24/48 hours. I never got that call - but I did get a txt message eight days later, a few minutes after making a follow up call, inviting me to an appointment on 9th December.
This is five weeks from the date of my original call.
Now I appreciate mine is a non-urgent complaint, but even so it’s astonishing how hard it is to see a GP (and the days of seeing the same GP twice in a row or my own named GP are long, long gone).
How have things gotten this bad? At the same surgery ten years ago, you got an appointment the same or next day generally - no triage - or a 3/4 day wait maximum. And I always saw my named GP.
So my question is, the last time you made an appointment at the GP, how long was your wait for an in person appointment?
I have a skin issue which is worrying me a bit, so I called my GP in the designated time slot to make an appointment. I was triaged by the receptionist, and told a GP would call back within 24/48 hours. I never got that call - but I did get a txt message eight days later, a few minutes after making a follow up call, inviting me to an appointment on 9th December.
This is five weeks from the date of my original call.
Now I appreciate mine is a non-urgent complaint, but even so it’s astonishing how hard it is to see a GP (and the days of seeing the same GP twice in a row or my own named GP are long, long gone).
How have things gotten this bad? At the same surgery ten years ago, you got an appointment the same or next day generally - no triage - or a 3/4 day wait maximum. And I always saw my named GP.
So my question is, the last time you made an appointment at the GP, how long was your wait for an in person appointment?