AmexRuislip
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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!
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[News] Doctor surgery wait times
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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
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
Last time was two years ago and it was the same day. But then a few days earlier I had been bitten by a dog (not one of mine) and it had gone septic. I'd 'played the game' and had been to a pharmacist first - who said ring your GP and say your pharmacist says you need to be seen now.
An hour after seeing the GP I was on an IV drip in A&E ...
Prior to that would have been 2019 when my heart first started playing up. It was a day or two wait - but I did say it wasn't urgent and it was only my bloody wife making me go. (Turns out it was good she did, but that's irrelevant to this thread).
An hour after seeing the GP I was on an IV drip in A&E ...
Prior to that would have been 2019 when my heart first started playing up. It was a day or two wait - but I did say it wasn't urgent and it was only my bloody wife making me go. (Turns out it was good she did, but that's irrelevant to this thread).