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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 12:43:37 GMT
Rang my Drs today and using the automated appointment service, the next available with any Doctor is..
The 29th of bastard May! Fucks sake.
What a load of bollocks.
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Post by trickydicky73 on May 4, 2019 12:51:54 GMT
Been going this way for years. By the time you get seen you will be better, hopefully!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 12:54:24 GMT
Been going this way for years. By the time you get seen you will be better, hopefully! Who wants to see a doctor in 25 days time?
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Post by trickydicky73 on May 4, 2019 12:55:57 GMT
Been going this way for years. By the time you get seen you will be better, hopefully! Who wants to see a doctor in 25 days time? Psychics?
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Post by Robo10 on May 4, 2019 13:02:18 GMT
Every surgery now has an app for booking online
I use Evergreen, but there is Patient Access and others.
I order my monthly repeats on it, are waiting at the chemist 3 days later
I can review test results
I can ask a simple question
I can book appointments, usually for the following day, as there are slots reserved for online booking
You cant get those slots ringing up unless a dire emergency
Honestly its 2019, get with the times :-)
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Post by felonious on May 4, 2019 13:03:42 GMT
Phone up after 8.30 in the morning and most days you are in by 10:30 but then again I have the most efficient doctor out there.
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Post by trickydicky73 on May 4, 2019 13:06:57 GMT
Every surgery now has an app for booking online I use Evergreen, but there is Patient Access and others. I order my monthly repeats on it, are waiting at the chemist 3 days later I can review test results I can ask a simple question I can book appointments, usually for the following day, as there are slots reserved for online booking You cant get those slots ringing up unless a dire emergency Honestly its 2019, get with the times :-) I used to do that until my doctors decided to change a perfectly good system. The new one doesn't recognize my details even though they were supposed to be carried over. Bag of wank.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 13:25:57 GMT
Every surgery now has an app for booking online I use Evergreen, but there is Patient Access and others. I order my monthly repeats on it, are waiting at the chemist 3 days later I can review test results I can ask a simple question I can book appointments, usually for the following day, as there are slots reserved for online booking You cant get those slots ringing up unless a dire emergency Honestly its 2019, get with the times :-) I'll have to take a look
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Post by ravey123 on May 4, 2019 14:09:32 GMT
Been going this way for years. By the time you get seen you will be better, hopefully! Who wants to see a doctor in 25 days time? Dont doctors surgeries get paid a flat fee by the government per member of the public they have on their books. This fee being for whether they see you never each year or 100 times a year. Perhaps their thinking is "make appointments so far in the future that most patients either get better on their own or get so ill they have to go to hospital". This way they effectively get money for nothing
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Post by Robo10 on May 4, 2019 15:18:10 GMT
For Evergreen the app is free to download on Android or iOS
You need a login and password from your docs
Just follow the instructions, was really simple
I only speak to anyone in the surgery now if I have to go in! :-)
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Post by cheeesfreeex on May 4, 2019 15:59:13 GMT
For Evergreen the app is free to download on Android or iOS You need a login and password from your docs Just follow the instructions, was really simple I only speak to anyone in the surgery now if I have to go in! :-) That's brilliant but not everyone is net savvy. Just another example of a two tier system. Arguably those most needy (elderly and poor) are excluded from such luxuries.
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Post by LL Cool Dave on May 4, 2019 16:53:01 GMT
I get one the next day most times, sometimes the same day. Fantastic doctor as well.
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Post by Robo10 on May 4, 2019 17:03:44 GMT
For Evergreen the app is free to download on Android or iOS You need a login and password from your docs Just follow the instructions, was really simple I only speak to anyone in the surgery now if I have to go in! :-) That's brilliant but not everyone is net savvy. Just another example of a two tier system. Arguably those most needy (elderly and poor) are excluded from such luxuries. Thats a fair point Perhaps the surgeries should have drop in centres to help to set people up - even old folk have snazzy phones It would reduce footfall, phone calls etc in the actual docs waiting room. I know trying to get an appointment on the phone in town takes about 300 calls between 8-9am when they start to take the 'in day' calls
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Post by Boothen on May 4, 2019 17:21:45 GMT
I usually get the same day or the next day. Not long back, I phoned up at about 16:00 and was in seeing the doctor 30mins later and my prescription was ready for pick up at Sainsburys by the time I'd walked down the hill.
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Post by partickpotter on May 4, 2019 17:34:54 GMT
For Evergreen the app is free to download on Android or iOS You need a login and password from your docs Just follow the instructions, was really simple I only speak to anyone in the surgery now if I have to go in! :-) That's brilliant but not everyone is net savvy. Just another example of a two tier system. Arguably those most needy (elderly and poor) are excluded from such luxuries. Survival of the fittest. Can't argue with Darwin.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on May 4, 2019 17:45:58 GMT
That's brilliant but not everyone is net savvy. Just another example of a two tier system. Arguably those most needy (elderly and poor) are excluded from such luxuries. Survival of the fittest. Can't argue with Darwin. Now then. I have plenty of quibbles with Darwin. He himself wasn't overly confident with his theory. But that's for another thread. Something like... 'Evolution and that'. ;-)
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Post by Goonie on May 4, 2019 21:48:24 GMT
You're lucky.....my GP's don't allow advanced bookings: if you want a morning appointment call after 8.30am and before 12pm - afternoons are 1 till 5pm and you have to call then to get an appointment! Ludicrous- great if you don't have a job/retired I imagine
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Post by musik on May 4, 2019 23:19:51 GMT
Sweden report:
Some years ago the government implemented a rule here: "Any citizen should get to see a doctor (specialist) within 90 days". Often managed.
If i want to make an appointment with my GP, the waiting time is said to be 1-2 month. But there's always the drop in opportunity, the same day it is then.
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Post by FbrgVaStkFan on May 4, 2019 23:24:20 GMT
The gastroenterology office keeps leaving me voicemails to schedule my appointment..."call ###### and choose option 4." Every time I call back and choose option 4 it goes straight to "leave your number, etc." They just sent me a letter stating they've tried numerous times to reach me. This has been going on for about three weeks. I'm beginning to think the colonoscopy will be the easy part. I'm not going choose option 4 next time and see what happens or just show up in person.
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Post by musik on May 10, 2019 18:14:51 GMT
Went on one of those drop in mornings to my doctor. 12 persons were already waiting in the stairway when I got there BEFORE they'd opened.
I sat there waiting for two hours, but I couldn't see my doctor, since she only had booked patients from 10 o'clock. I went home.
A new try on Monday morning at 7!!! One hour before they open.
But how could I possibly get in to the stairway before they open up downstairs I have no idea! I noticed a steel door to the garage on the same door as the clinic, but it was locked.
Maybe any of the 12 persons had a key to it, but they wouldn't tell me.
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Post by Linx on May 10, 2019 19:28:58 GMT
You have to ring for an appointment between 8 and 8.30 on the morning of the day, otherwise forget it. And if you do get in to see a doctor (if you haven’t already been fobbed off with the practice nurse) you get a maximum of seven minutes. It’s not helped in that my surgery is in the next village, which is a popular retirement destination full of OAPs. It’s a busy place.
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Post by questionable on May 10, 2019 20:52:05 GMT
I rang yesterday and was told “Sorry but we haven’t had the doctors schedule confirmed yet so we haven’t got any appointments”
I was then asked if I wanted to see the nurse, which I don’t because she has the gonads to tell people to lose weight when she herself is an absolute beast of a thing.
I was once told that if the doctors surgery advises you to go to the A&E that the A&E bill the surgery??
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Post by musik on May 12, 2019 10:36:41 GMT
I rang yesterday and was told “Sorry but we haven’t had the doctors schedule confirmed yet so we haven’t got any appointments” I was then asked if I wanted to see the nurse, which I don’t because she has the gonads to tell people to lose weight when she herself is an absolute beast of a thing. I was once told that if the doctors surgery advises you to go to the A&E that the A&E bill the surgery?? What is the A&E? A tv company? Industrial design? The Record company?
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Post by musik on May 12, 2019 10:44:46 GMT
I rang yesterday and was told “Sorry but we haven’t had the doctors schedule confirmed yet so we haven’t got any appointments” That's how it is here in Sweden also. I think it's possibly better now, but it has happened the schedule for the doctors the current week, hasn't been told online until monday morning at 9. Do you have a system with both drop in and booked appointments in England? Here, to get an appointment with a GPs at the health center you have to wait 1-3 months. If you want to see a specialist, normally at least 3 months. But the drop in system at the GPs lets you see the GP the same day, if you're lucky. It depends on how many patients.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2019 10:46:38 GMT
Think yourself lucky you can’t get seen.....they are only trained to pump your body full of drugs and tick you off the list
The drugs they fill you with will probably worse for you long term than your original problem
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 12, 2019 18:41:45 GMT
I'll be in the queue at 8am tomorrow, don't care who I see. (not in my state).
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Post by lawrieleslie on May 13, 2019 6:40:59 GMT
I’ve said this before it’s a post code lottery. Down here in Devon at our local health centre if you need to see a doctor urgently phone at 8.30am and you will get an appointment usually am but certainly the same day. For less urgent appointments phone at 11.00am and you will get an appointment within 7-10 working days. Out of hours we have a Social enterprise called Devon Doctors which is a very good service. You will be triaged by a medical professional on the phone and they respond accordingly.
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Post by Goonie on May 13, 2019 14:21:10 GMT
Morning appointments have to call after 8:30am to get one before 12:30 and after 1pm for one between 1 and 6
Phone instantly engaged from 8.25 onwards and from 12.29!
Needless to say if you work 9-5, fulltime you're pretty fucked
Not been for several years as a consequence - is that their plan???
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Post by zelem on May 22, 2019 17:45:21 GMT
Every surgery now has an app for booking online I use Evergreen, but there is Patient Access and others. I order my monthly repeats on it, are waiting at the chemist 3 days later I can review test results I can ask a simple question I can book appointments, usually for the following day, as there are slots reserved for online booking You cant get those slots ringing up unless a dire emergency Honestly its 2019, get with the times :-) Ffs! What planet do some people live on?! As someone who has a long term health condition and as a result was granted patient access ( to order repeat medication ) i will tell you a story; Last september whilst away on holiday i fell ill (nothing to do with my longterm health condition) and wanted a doctors appointment for my return home. On the monday i logged onto patient access and the earliest available appointment was the following thursday lunch! , i booked this appointment and flew home on the tuesday evening , by wednesday lunch i was rushed in hospital!! On the thursday morning i logged onto patient access to cancel my appointment so that someone, ( probably a poorly old lady or gent) could have it, can you cancel appointments on patient access? ; can you f*”k!. I then lay in my hospital bed on my phone to my gp for an hour trying to get through so i could cancel my appointment, could i get through; could i f’*’k!! So the next time you start piping up about it been 2019 have a closer look at the sh*t management and how the gready fatcats that are implementing these systems and running the gp surgeries ! (and probably getting a few brown envelopes to top up their fu’*g pensions whilst theyre at it!).
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Post by felonious on May 22, 2019 18:18:08 GMT
That's brilliant but not everyone is net savvy. Just another example of a two tier system. Arguably those most needy (elderly and poor) are excluded from such luxuries. Survival of the fittest. Can't argue with Darwin. It sounds more like survival of the unfittest on here
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