Hi Alan,

Thanks for your update  (yesterday?)about the new location of the forum.

I had already noticed, but thought it about time that I wound my neck in. But that was then ... this morning I cant find anything.

602

Hi Alan.

Today I logged on only to find your "NUDGE." towards the new location ... but when i arrived ... I couldn't find anything meaningful.

Would a wrong move block me from re-applying immediately after?

602

PS Life is being unpleasant at present. I have no faith in my Guru, nor my GP. We though Wilkie was looking for somewhere to die ... but he picked up ... probably approaching his mid teens We are his third owners  We are his  suspect that we are his favourites. Grandaughter has caught Covid.

602

Well 602, I hope your here. Don't know about you but I find I am just getting accustomed to one system when another comes along ... 
In many parts of the Country finding a GP is almost impossible but you can always ask for a second opinion.
Alas, pets rarely outlive their owners so the loss of a pet is something we have to endure and sometimes it is knowing when to let them go.
Keep him happy whilst he around. And wish your Granddaughter speedy recovery.
Yes, this is Really OT but hopefully we are a caring community.
👍

I tried to see my GP the other day and was told I'd have to wait 6 weeks !!!      Good job I wasn't dying ....

A second opinion would have been a further 6 weeks ... maybe I'd have died by then 


My wife was chatting to a friend who was a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in a certain part of Wales and was told the waiting list was 4 years       

Someone needing a second opinion there would or should think twice about a second opinion   


John, I feel your pain regards Wilkie - our four legged friends are both 14 yrs of age 

Not too long before Covid you'd go to the surgery and see the Doctor - the waiting room usually had a 15 people there waiting on a rolling replacement basis and a constant stream of folks seeing the nurses.

Now you go to the surgery and if yu have an appointment you'll see a max of 2 people waiting for the Doctor and maybe a casual passer by for the nurses.

The " list " of Doctors attached to the surgery is still there but where are the Doctors      ..... and further ... where are the patients / customers


John as regards losing faith in your GP it seems you are lucky to have one 

I've noticed that too ...

Hardly anyone waiting now (for anything) ...

(Probably all gone off to the A&E)

Which is good as the best place to catch something is in the doctors's waiting room 
Same at the Pharmacy, big long queues waiting - for what.


I'm notionally assigned to a GP but never seen them, don't know who they are. It's the nurses that deal with me now.

Be interesting to see if anything changes under the new regime 

Here in Hillingdon I can get to see my GP in under 7 working days and the odd times it has been the same day. If it's important they have several emergency appointments each day. I have been in my local Hospital several time since Christmas, seems to be hardly any patients inside to see consultants, where A&E is packed and the que is out of the door. I have had a replacement knee, saw my GP at the end of February had all the test etc and the knee was replaced on the 30th of April, it was done on the NHS at a private hospital. I'm not the only one round here, there's was quite a few when I attended physio who'd gone the same way.

Waiting for a hospital consultation? I'd ask for a Circle health  appointment, my wife has a problem with her ankle, saw the GP, recommended to see a consultant she has an appointment next week.

Good luck ... hope it goes well 

Quote from: geoff on Jul 08, 2024, 11:36 AMNot too long before Covid you'd go to the surgery and see the Doctor - the waiting room usually had a 15 people there waiting on a rolling replacement basis and a constant stream of folks seeing the nurses.

Now you go to the surgery and if yu have an appointment you'll see a max of 2 people waiting for the Doctor and maybe a casual passer by for the nurses.

The " list " of Doctors attached to the surgery is still there but where are the Doctors      ..... and further ... where are the patients / customers


John as regards losing faith in your GP it seems you are lucky to have one 

This is exactly like the situation at my GP surgery in Scotland. The same number of Doctors on the board outside, but difficult to get an appointment and the waiting room is almost empty. Where are they all? They can't all be on holiday or working privately, or can they???

Ian F

  ^^^ Definitely not all on strike ( not in Scotland of course ) but having spoken to my Grandaughter today who is an A&E nurse I'm told that amongst other things lots have gone part time.
More to do with pension and tax thresholds than anything else, not that they don't have other travails of course much like us all I guess.

  Stay healthy or face the Swiss Needle instead                     

The last time I saw my doctor was 2017 about the renewal of my shotgun and firearms certificate. Since then I had a replacement hip in June 2021 and I never saw my doctor at all. The surgery arranged an appointment with the consultant then 6 weeks later I had a new hip. Since then the surgery texts me regarding COVID and flu jabs and my annual blood pressure readings which I have to submit myself and a blood test. I don't even bother to contact the surgery about my blood test results now because if anything was wrong I do know they'd contact me and nothing heard about the tests I had earlier in spring.
"No news is good news" as far as I'm concerned.

Blimey !!!!!  all I can say is sod going to " Holby " I'm moving house to where Alan Drover lives       

... and my dentist's surgery is on the floor above the doctor's surgery. It's an easy 1 mile walk to both.

Now, that's just showing off ... where is it you live

That said in our village med centre there is a pharmacy.
***** unless service. You have to stand with all the sick people in a queue while they make your prescription up.

I've moved now to Boots on the retail park next to Sainsbury's 

What happens now is I hand in my repeat meds form at the med centre,
quite why you have to do this every 2 months beats me.
What I have will never get better. So, they should know I need the pills. They should know when I pop my clogs and don't need the pills 
Anyway.... the med centre send me a text when they have processed the prescription (after 2 days) Then after 3 days Boots text to say I can pick up the pills. Never a queue in Boots when I go in to get the pills 
Much better than hanging around in a queue of sick people.

Coming up will be the call for the flue jab. I'll get a text and can pick the date and time slot.
Waiting for the call for a shingles jab ....

^^^ There is also a jab available to protect you against pneumonia ... I'm waiting for / wanting mine   

Popping clogs and " knowing " .... tell your designated person to use the " tell us once " service, makes life ( sic ) easy