[News] Doctor surgery wait times

jcdenton08 said:

That sounds so much better. My surgery has Blinx, it’s right there on the NHS app and their website, but it’s permanently disabled. It’s like everything at my surgery is designed to be as difficult as possible

Click to expand...

Sorry to hear that.
I'm only surmising here, does it depend on what the surgeries can afford, as I know they're all businesses after all, competing for trade!

The appointments process here fell through the floor pre-Covid, very steeply, when we the government was dicking about with Brexit.

I recently needed an appointment so rocked up at the surgery and managed to sweet talk the front desk into getting me a nurse practitioner appointment a week later. That went well. She told me I should not be taking colchicine ad libitem for gout and needed to tackle the underlying issue with allopurinol.

Oddly I saw a nurse practitioner 6 months earlier who told me I should not be put on allopurinol and should treat the gout ad libitem with colchicine.

I'm a pharmacologist. My left eyebrow is doing raising overtime.

In my lay capacity as a member of the public I am persuaded that the evidence of my experience suggests the GP system is f***ed.

Another tory mess for labour to clear up. Surprised labour haven't already been blamed for it. Something something militant doctors' union.

Oh....hang on