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How Long Shall I Wait In?
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Had a letter from the hospital to say I would be getting a phone call today at 9.45am from a consultant and make sure I'm available to take the call.
I have to go out at 11am and at the moment, I still haven't received the call.
Do you think waiting in for over an hour is reasonable?
I have to go out at 11am and at the moment, I still haven't received the call.
Do you think waiting in for over an hour is reasonable?
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Yes the NHS have had to pull out all the stops to try and get this virus under some sort of control, but health workers have been working hard all over the world for years ( putting themselves on the front line) to fight dangerous viruses, and that will always be the case. We have given this virus our best shot, now we need to get on with life, and stop looking for excuses to prolong the situation. What will be the governments next move??? waiting for all children to be vaccinated? it can go on and on for ever if we don't move away from it now.
No point woofy. I can't answer it if I'm driving and I turn it off at the dentist anyway. I don't have a smart phone and Bluetooth etc, it's just a very old basic phone that I usually take with me if I need it in an emergency. I don't even have it switched on when I'm at home as I always give people my landline number.
"Bearing in mind that the vast majority of the population make little or no call on the NHS I would say that's considerably well funded"
i disagree with you i think the vast majority of people DO make a call on the NHS per year. There are not many older people who dont have pills, and a considerable amount of younger people that do. Prescription charges are oftenway under what the medicines actually cost.
When you consider that if you broke your leg, it'd probably be about 1k for the ambulance to come and scrape you up, maybe a hospital stay (£at least 200 pn,) an operation, follow up, maybe physio, pain killers and so on.
a complicated birth is £1000s,
GP appts, nurse appointments, pharmacists, dentists and so on, you can see that it's very easy for a person to exceed their "quota"
i disagree with you i think the vast majority of people DO make a call on the NHS per year. There are not many older people who dont have pills, and a considerable amount of younger people that do. Prescription charges are oftenway under what the medicines actually cost.
When you consider that if you broke your leg, it'd probably be about 1k for the ambulance to come and scrape you up, maybe a hospital stay (£at least 200 pn,) an operation, follow up, maybe physio, pain killers and so on.
a complicated birth is £1000s,
GP appts, nurse appointments, pharmacists, dentists and so on, you can see that it's very easy for a person to exceed their "quota"
//you can see that it's very easy for a person to exceed their "quota"//
Yes I can, bednobs. But I can also see the reverse. I know probably 30-ish relatives and friends whose medical problems I am acquainted with. Of them I know one who has a severe blood pressure problem following a stroke, one who is diabetic, one who has arthritic knees and has had one replaced and one who has anaemia. And that’s about it. Mrs NJ has troubled the NHS once in about the last fifteen years. That was for supervision of a broken arm that she sustained and had treated abroad. One X-Ray, two consultations and some promised physiotherapy which failed to materialise. I’ve troubled my GP perhaps three times in the last five years. I’m trying to have a dodgy knee looked at. I’ve failed miserably because my GP’s surgery is closed and I’ve gone down the private route. The NHS is not underfunded. It is over managed and badly administered.
// Have just phoned the secretary again who has told me I will have to wait for another telephone appointment now because it was apparently my fault that I wasn't in when the doctor phoned, even though I waited in for an hour past the appointment time.//
Frankly that is bloody outrageous, barsel. It sums up what is wrong with the NHS. Its patients are simply not considered. They seem to think that you are quite content to spend your day either traipsing all round the district from surgery to clinic to hospital or waiting in for phone calls that do not materialise. What you experienced today was rudeness and incivility and it is inexcusable. I trust you won’t be on the doorstep next time a “Thursday night clap for our heroes” is called for.
Yes I can, bednobs. But I can also see the reverse. I know probably 30-ish relatives and friends whose medical problems I am acquainted with. Of them I know one who has a severe blood pressure problem following a stroke, one who is diabetic, one who has arthritic knees and has had one replaced and one who has anaemia. And that’s about it. Mrs NJ has troubled the NHS once in about the last fifteen years. That was for supervision of a broken arm that she sustained and had treated abroad. One X-Ray, two consultations and some promised physiotherapy which failed to materialise. I’ve troubled my GP perhaps three times in the last five years. I’m trying to have a dodgy knee looked at. I’ve failed miserably because my GP’s surgery is closed and I’ve gone down the private route. The NHS is not underfunded. It is over managed and badly administered.
// Have just phoned the secretary again who has told me I will have to wait for another telephone appointment now because it was apparently my fault that I wasn't in when the doctor phoned, even though I waited in for an hour past the appointment time.//
Frankly that is bloody outrageous, barsel. It sums up what is wrong with the NHS. Its patients are simply not considered. They seem to think that you are quite content to spend your day either traipsing all round the district from surgery to clinic to hospital or waiting in for phone calls that do not materialise. What you experienced today was rudeness and incivility and it is inexcusable. I trust you won’t be on the doorstep next time a “Thursday night clap for our heroes” is called for.
I wouldn't say that's troubling the NHS too much. We were invited. As an aside our GP surgery had absolutely nothing to do with the vaccination programme apart from providing a list of its patients to somebody who was prepared to get involved. This is despite having spacious and adequate premises which were extended just two years ago at a cost of £2m. These premises are at the end of my road, about 250 yards away. We had to traipse to a hospital over five miles away (two buses for those with no wheels). Separate appointments about a month apart, of course, because we fell either side of one of the age cut offs. Of course we could have waited a little and visited London's Chinatown where, for two days last month, mobile vaccination facilities were available to allcomers, no appointment, no NHS No., no ID required:
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As you can imagine, I am no fan of the NHS and the more I see of it the more what little enthusiasm I had for it diminishes. I just hope I never get ill.
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As you can imagine, I am no fan of the NHS and the more I see of it the more what little enthusiasm I had for it diminishes. I just hope I never get ill.
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