This Farage Immigrants with HIV Business

[FatLazyContractor]

Getting an appointment at my local surgery is now a complete lottery.

You can no longer book up an appointment in a few days' time to suit your busy schedule, you can only get an appointment for that day by ringing at 8am when they open. Of course every other man and his dog is ringing at the same time so the switchboard is jammed & by the time you get through all the appointments have gone & they tell you to phone back the next day at 8am. Rinse & repeat until you get lucky

Doesn't your surgery do online appointments?

My GP practice has next day appointments which are released at 8 am the day before. The best bit is that the telephone operators also use the same database to book appointments which keeps things consistent. I not only find loads of appointments (at 8 am), but often have a choice of GP I would like to see.

You probably need to find a more efficient GP surgery in your catchment area and move !

[Euler]

I know breaking point is used too much when describing the NHS but as far as I can see it has reached that, it is an 11 hour day being a GP now and you don't get a break, wife now has cut back to 3 days a week. To deal with demand surgeries are moving to telephone triage which results in poorer care and actually increases demand, people just phone up to have a chin wag about their athletes foot.

The whole thing is a cluster fook and no amount of money will sort it now.

Family and I are insured up to the eyeballs in order to avoid the NHS.
Problem is you still have to use the NHS GP as a gatekeeper to these insured services.

[DaveB]

Doesn't your surgery do online appointments?

My GP practice has next day appointments which are released at 8 am the day before. The best bit is that the telephone operators also use the same database to book appointments which keeps things consistent. I not only find loads of appointments (at 8 am), but often have a choice of GP I would like to see.

You probably need to find a more efficient GP surgery in your catchment area and move !

WHS. Local surgery has an online booking system and you can can get next day appointments 90% of the time and often same day if you book first thing.

They also do telephone advice from the practice Nurse or a Doctor. They will offer this as a first option when you call. Doc or Nurse will call you back at a set time rather than booking a full appointment. Weeds out a lot of the pointless stuff.

[Euler]

no resorting to personal attacks and dismissive shows your paucity of language and complete inability to work with others.

Next we will have stories about your social interactions with the high & mighty. All from your £2m house (sorry bedsit) that your spouse bought you.

You probably miss the irony of that, not being very bright.

[FatLazyContractor]

Family and I are insured up to the eyeballs in order to avoid the NHS.
Problem is you still have to use the NHS GP as a gatekeeper to these insured services.

Not necessarily. I used Private BUPA GPs in the past and got referred immediately.

[Euler]

Not necessarily. I used Private BUPA GPs in the past and got referred immediately.

Didn't know that - not having had to use the services.
Long may that continue, touch wood.
I used to have a Medicentre GP insurance which allowed 4 visits to a private GP a year, don't know if that still exists but may renew that.

[Gumbo Robot]

You probably miss the irony of that, not being very bright.

Why don't you just ask admin for the SAS password if you've lost it?

[FatLazyContractor]

Didn't know that - not having had to use the services.
Long may that continue, touch wood.
I used to have a Medicentre GP insurance which allowed 4 visits to a private GP a year, don't know if that still exists but may renew that.

Yes, I'd do that!

If my memory serves me right, most of those appointments were on the same day. I think they cost me around £60 for 10 minutes, though the GP doesn't sit with a stopwatch! I got referred to a specialist through their service for the next day. Got diagnosed and started treatment with a week. Now NHS is a different story though ....

[darmstadt]

Getting an appointment at my local surgery is now a complete lottery.

You can no longer book up an appointment in a few days' time to suit your busy schedule, you can only get an appointment for that day by ringing at 8am when they open. Of course every other man and his dog is ringing at the same time so the switchboard is jammed & by the time you get through all the appointments have gone & they tell you to phone back the next day at 8am. Rinse & repeat until you get lucky

Why don't you become a health tourist and go abroad, your EHIC will cover you

Treating UK tourists in Europe costs five times more than equivalent cost to NHS | Society | The Guardian

[FatLazyContractor]

Why don't you become a health tourist and go abroad, your EHIC will cover you

Treating UK tourists in Europe costs five times more than equivalent cost to NHS | Society | The Guardian

Better to travel with a travel insurance and feign illness at the port of destination.

Why get treated at the NHS equivalent of another country when one can visit a private hospital with sexy nurses loitering around?