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...directs me to the following resource so I can share experiences of diabetes:

http://www.myhealthtalk.org/group/diabetes

It has 3 members and last activity was in September! Think I might try and get them to link to us as well or instead. Forums don't work without members or activity. If your surgery has a website I'd be interested to nkow if it also links to the site 🙂
 
The links section isn't set up very well - but I have looked in all sections and the link you reference is no where to be seen.
 
margie said:
The links section isn't set up very well - but I have looked in all sections and the link you reference is no where to be seen.
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Do you mean you can't find the link I have provided or that you can't get to it from your surgery website? It took me about 6 steps to actually get to the diabetes forum from my surgery website - which is definitely something that needs to be pointed out. People shouldn't be given useless links for the sake of providing one. Especially when there is a really great forum here already! 😉
 
Mine doesn't have one either. would be helpful, my friend goes to a different surgery and she can order repeat prescriptions on line.
 
My surgery has had a website for a while, but has just had a bit of a revamp. I can't order repeats online yet as far as I can see :(
 
Mine just introduced automatic doors so no chance of a website
 
Our surgery is on line, which is great for repeat prescriptions. Not allowed to phone for repeats, have to do this on line or physically call in to put request in the box - I feel this a little unfair for those without internet access however!
 
One of the doctors even has an aquarium - nah nah-nah nah nah!
 
Tina63 said:
We have automatic doors and a website!!!
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Snap !

Both are rubbish but they're there. The surgery moved to a new building recently and the auto doors have a push button to open them (no detector) but the button is next to the doors and they open outwards.

So you have to step back as they open after pressing the button. Not a problem.

Until someone in a wheelchair or on crutches wants to get in. They're just out of sight of the reception desk, so I doubt anything will be done unless someone actually injures themselves.

The website is about as useful.🙄

Rob
 
Northerner said:
Do you mean you can't find the link I have provided or that you can't get to it from your surgery website? It took me about 6 steps to actually get to the diabetes forum from my surgery website - which is definitely something that needs to be pointed out. People shouldn't be given useless links for the sake of providing one. Especially when there is a really great forum here already! 😉
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I can see your link but can't get to it from the practice web-site. I can get to the web-sites of all the local hospitals and the local health Authorities though.

We don't have automatic doors but we can order prescriptions on line, and book appointments with one of the Drs but not the nurses. One of the Drs has an aquarium. We have a touch screen auto arrive screen too.
 
I rarely see my GP, he works in a boring but practical 1960s block, he hasn't a website. I make all my own appointments with various doctors and they give me the results/letters directly, saves an awful lot of administration. If necessary they pick up the phone and talk to the relevent doctor directly.

My hospitals pretty special though, it's definitely got automatic doors, but if you're bored with waiting, you don't have to make do with a fish tank, you could have a stroll round the cloisters of a Carthusian monastery.
http://www.ch-villefranche-rouergue.fr/presentation-centre-hospitalier/patrimoine-chartreuse.html
 
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Oh wow Helen! - lot more interesting than the Frock Shop and the jewellers then! (or Costa Packet Coffee!)
 
We have a website where you can re-order prescriptions, self refer to physio and find times and dates of various clinics. There is also a monthly newsletter.
The only links are to PALS, NHS Direct, A.A. and Carer's Organisations.

There is a a Virtual Patient Representative Group within the practice who comment on the good and bad that occurs there. They were set up to try and improve services as some patients complain a lot. I have never needed to complain as I find the services I need to access are excellent and I have never had a problem with reception staff.

No fish tanks or revolving doors at the surgery, it is an old Victorian building with a rabbit warren of rooms and covers three floors. People with limited mobility are seen on the ground floor.
 
Tina63 said:
One of the doctors even has an aquarium - nah nah-nah nah nah!
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The thing that most impressed me about the room used by a GP I consulted when only a year since diagnosis and recently started my MSc - was a climbing helmet on his filing cabinet, so I asked where he climbed. 🙂

Would like the chance to explore a monastery as at HelenM's hospital!
 
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