Can your GP turn you away

[IR35 Avoider]

OK, so I havent made an appointment, purely because I cant plan in advance when I will next be ill and to get an appointment you need to book about 4 days in advance.

Only four days? For the last 20 years whenever I've phoned for an appointment, the median answer has been two weeks. Usually I then tell them not to bother, as I figure I'll either have recovered on my own or died by then.

I guess doctors must think patients are all hypochondriacs, as the only ones who make appointments are the ones who want to see them for some other reason than currently being ill.

To be fair to Labour, not something I like doing, the money they've spent may have made some difference. The last time I called for an appointment, they offered to see me the next day. The shock nearly killed me.

[EternalOptimist]

There's one by us with the name M.T. Khan

gives me a larf every time I go by

[Slumdog]

Doctors not only cannot write legibly : they also have to have cold hands.

Cold hands - Well that could depend on what and where is wrong. Could be an embarrassing outcome

[BrilloPad]

If I am really ill then I go to the hospital.

Doctors not only cannot write legibly : they also have to have cold hands.

[PM-Junkie]

Oh, an excuse to use one of my favourite sentences.

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness.

....you need to get out more.

[threaded]

Oh, an excuse to use one of my favourite sentences.

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness.

[Slumdog]

and i can wait in the waiting room for as long as it takes.

[PRC1964]

Tell your GP you've just got back from Mexico and don't feel very well.

[Clippy]

OK, so I havent made an appointment, purely because I cant plan in advance when I will next be ill and to get an appointment you need to book about 4 days in advance.

So since yesterday I am rather unwell and will visit my local GP. Can he turn me away without an appointment or do they have to see me?

Best check with your GP.

[realityhack]

OK, so I havent made an appointment, purely because I cant plan in advance when I will next be ill and to get an appointment you need to book about 4 days in advance.

So since yesterday I am rather unwell and will visit my local GP. Can he turn me away without an appointment or do they have to see me?

Phone and ask for an emergency appointment. Do it at 8am to see the GP in the morning, 12pm for the afternoon.

[Slumdog]

OK, so I havent made an appointment, purely because I cant plan in advance when I will next be ill and to get an appointment you need to book about 4 days in advance.

So since yesterday I am rather unwell and will visit my local GP. Can he turn me away without an appointment or do they have to see me?