Healthcare to be scaled back

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I'd be concerned because no doctor who has shoved a needle in me has been as gentle as a nurse of phlebotomist!
 
I can't see GPs administering the vaccine. Surely it will be the nurses who do the flu and pneumonia who will be tasked with doing it and there will be a similar walk through system. The nurses have just finished the flu jabs so will be well practiced with the routine to deliver this vaccine too.
 
GPs do the flu jab in our practice, not nurses, and have done for several years, on special Saturday clinics, so not clashing with normal surgery times.
 
I agree with @trophywench, GPs are doing little enough as it is, with Nurses doing flu jabs. This will work the same way with Covid vaccine. The nurse does the work, the practice gets paid. Don’t suppose the nurses will get paid any more.

I take exception to @helli ’s comment. I had the touch of an angel when doing blood:D
 
A doctor did my flu jab. :D
 
In more usual times, our surgery Flu Clinics appear to be all hands to the pumps. All GPs and anŷ other suitably qualified staff administering.

We have a PPG on the 19th, so it will be interesting to hear of developments then.

In Lockdown #1, I was appalled by how patients were being handled (or not), but things appear to have been handled more reasonably recently. Telephone appointments have been readilŷ available, and I was astonished to find a referral sent for me, to Rheumatology on the 22nd October has resulted in an appointment for the 19th of this month.

It would appear that corner of the NHS, in this area, isn't too overworked at the moment.
 
Can't get through on the phone either at 08.30 or 13.00 which are the only times you may ring in order to request and appointment. If they've run out of appts for that morning or afternoon, which they always have by the time you get through, you have to ring back tomorrow ad infinitum. You frequently have to keep re-dialling the number to even get the ringing tone - 50+ times is normal and daughter had to redial over 80 times one day when she was chasing up a prescription for the 8 year old.

I'm dreading getting my replacement pump when I'll need my elixir of life in 10ml vials again - cos the persons who answer the phones are not allowed to take messages, only arrange appointments for a GP to ring you and triage you. However - as they don't have any available, you're stuffed.
 
the government said that the NHS would step up to the challenge, don't think anyone would of even thought that they would rob surgeries of staff and cut healthcare.

Hospital care has def been scaled back in our area and this has been ongoing since March.

i have fibrosis and have not even been checked since Feb this year, not good.
 
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