Who'd Want To Be A Gp !

[tonyav]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/doctors-reveal-most-bizarre-requests-from-patients/ar-AAa9Yzt

[baza]

You can understand why some doctors go into stand up comedy.

[Sqad]

Headline should be...!Who'd want to be a GP in the NHS?

Gp's are emigrating to other countries and have been for the past 50 years.

GP's are an anachronism in the NHS and a very expensive one at that.

[tonyav]

Sorry sqad, if I could amend the headline I would.

[Sqad]

;-) ^^

[boxtops]

...and yet more and more work is being pushed their way, the investment is in primary care - but many GPs have had enough and are retiring. Patient demands increase, more services being commissioned from the GP practices (and funding goes with them), GP performance appraisal is now a must, CQC and other inspections on a regular basis - I don't know how they even attempt to keep up, and now the suggestion is that they must open 7 days a week for patients.

[Sqad]

boxy...you know my feeling about GP's.

They should all work in large clinics, hosting about 25 GP's at least and the clinic responsible for 24/7 cover. No home visits by GP's.

The vast amount of money invested in GP's should be transferred to the Hospital Service.

Don't get me started;-)

[Sqad]

\\\\ GP performance appraisal is now a must, CQC and other inspections on a regular basis -\\\\

another joke......who will supervise them and what will be done if they don't perform well?

[atalanta]

I'm hardly breaking any patient confidentiality because I'm not going to tell you which country this happened in, or which decade of last century. And these patients must be dead by now, anyway. I once had a job as a doctor's receptionist, and patients quite freely told me what they wanted. One woman came every morning for laxatives if she "hadn't been" that morning.
One man came saying he hadn't been able to wash his hair for 2 years as he was afraid that if he did so it would fall out, and wanted the doctor to wash it for him. The doctor told him to go to a barber.

[boxtops]

I won't, sqad, but the fact is that it's the other way round these days. All the drive is to move services out of hospitals and into community, the consultants go to community bases as well as having acute duties. Commissioning services is a whole different ball game these days.

[tonyav]

sqad, I seem to remember you saying that you did a spell as a GP, did you get any bizarre requests ?.

[boxtops]

//GP performance appraisal is now a must, CQC and other inspections on a regular basis//

sqad - practices round here are being closed down or merged if they don't come up to scratch after a reasonable time after inspections.

Who monitors? - CQC & NHS England (and the CCGs, who are led by GPs).

[shoota]

I'd quite like to be a GP - all that examining and palpating......
I could handle that.
Women only of course.....

[boxtops]

Nah shoota, you have a chaperone these days if you are going to examine people's bits :-)

[tonyav]

I've gone off the idea now, shoota. Have you.

[Sqad]

boxy...I know and it is utter nonsense....a waste of valuable time for the doctor to go to the patient.......and what can he do when he gets there...b.gger all.
It is purely a political health service, the patients want to be spoon fed and the politicians give it to them for fear of not being voted into government.

UK cancer survival rates do badly in the league tables......a disgrace for the money poured into health.

Sorry boxy.........but unless private investment and common sense is injected into the NHS, it will deteriorate further and within 20 years will be unrecognisable as a health service.

[shoota]

Troilism's fine - I'm not religious.

[boxtops]

I agree wholeheartedly about the investment needed, sqad! and home visits really are a thing that happens rarely these days. The district/community nurses are more likely to be doing that and reporting back to the GP.

It would help if we didn't keep having huge reorganisations which must cost millions - I've been through 4 major reorganisations and 5 employers in the last 15 years (Health Authorities, Primary Care Groups, Primary Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups) - and each time it all has to start all over again. :-(

[Sqad]

tony.........only one that I can remember.

I was in a mining town practice (they paid better salaries than the Southern practices) and there was a family of Nigerians, mother father and about six kids and they always phoned for a visit in the afternoon or evening, the medical card asking them to call before 10.am if possible.
Well i must have been to that house 20 times and each time i gave them a b0llo.cking for calling late.
I had finally had enough and when they called again, I lined all the family up against the wall(no i didn't shoot them) and asked them to produce their medical cards and the father to read out....."please call the DR BEFORE 10.am".....which he did.

On looking at their medical cards, they were not patients of ours but of another local practice.

I went "spare" b.0llocked them all again and asked why they called me and not their own DR and the wife replied:

"Because you are so kind and sympathetic and the kids like you"

I had to laugh ...honestly.......their name was Bosah...shall never forget them.

[tonyav]

LOL, ''kind and sympathetic'. Don't blame you for giving them a B******ing though.

[tonyav]

sqad, why was it better paid in the North ?.