New NHS System

[Sausage Surprise]

I've probably missed something, but I thought the NHS had spent millions on this new patient booking system? Where you can choose your own appointment at your nearest clinic etc?

I've had some wierd skin allergy thing (very sexy) for the last few weeks and I've been waiting for login details to come.
So I got them yesterday (after about 9 days).

You log in with a reference number, the password provided and your year of birth.

It TOLD me what clinic I had to go to (no choice), and then I had to click on a button to "Choose and Book" appointment....

This directed me to the phone number of the clinic!


So I've waited 10 days to be given a phone number.

Genius

If all the consultants relevant to your condition uploaded their available slots to the system then you would have had a choice. If they don't.....

The system is there but it's a case of getting some of the older clinicians to accept change.

[Sausage Surprise]

Actually the GP system works quite well where I live, online you can choose which doc and what time. So all the millions were worth it to replace the old system where you phoned up and chose which doc and what time.

That's not Choose and book that the OP was referring to - that's a local GP system.

[expat]

Not true. I can phone up any number of plumbers and get them there when I want them, I might have to wait for an appropriate date (maybe well in the future) but they will still come - it's called an appointment.

An appointment. Yes. I know what that is, but the docs seem to have some trouble with the concept.

When you said "Not true" I thought you were telling minestrone that the stored proc would write itself.

[minestrone]

When you said "Not true" I thought you were telling minestrone that the stored proc would write itself.

The bleedin DBA's going to need a Doctor if I ever get hold of him

stopdate column name -> SCSTE_FLFRMT_STPDT
startdate column name -> SCSTE_FLFRMT_STRDT

Totally obvious and readable. Don't get me started on his refusal to use primary keys, yes seriously.

Probably worked on the NHS system