My clinic

[Brando77]

Popped into my clinic for a walk-in appointment this morning for a couple little things at 8am, took a book as I may be there a while, yep, your GP will see you 8.20am. I have an appt next Tuesday with him but we went through my new ailments and my Diabetes results, bp down, he was pleased my average bg are just over 6.0, tweaked my meds, got prescriptions....fantastic, also got an X-ray booked in the clinic up the road for 5pm.
NHS, what an institution, I hear people moaning about waiting hours.
Just take a book, go on Faceache, take some Ducklip selfies with the water cooler, WiFi is free.....you'd be moaning a lot more if a bill came thru your letterbox after your visit.

 

[Davein]

Popped into my clinic for a walk-in appointment this morning for a couple little things at 8am, took a book as I may be there a while, yep, your GP will see you 8.20am. I have an appt next Tuesday with him but we went through my new ailments and my Diabetes results, bp down, he was pleased my average bg are just over 6.0, tweaked my meds, got prescriptions....fantastic, also got an X-ray booked in the clinic up the road for 5pm.
NHS, what an institution, I hear people moaning about waiting hours.
Just take a book, go on Faceache, take some Ducklip selfies with the water cooler, WiFi is free.....you'd be moaning a lot more if a bill came thru your letterbox after your visit.

I think the walk-in bit gave it away Brando. 🙂 But great that you got sorted.
As for having a bill, well let me explain. We all make a contract with society. It agrees to supply free schooling and healthcare, protects us from the baddies in life, if unemployed pays benefits and pays us a pension,
In return we agree to pay our dues generally by paying taxes or helping each other. Personal tax is high when you consider employment taxes, VAT, Capital Gains Tax. Tax on insurances, Car Tax and a plethora of other taxes. If we are fortunate and healthy in life or unfortunate to die before we reach 65 then that money we pay in is spread around for those less fortunate.
Many of the members on here, including me, have honoured our part of that contract for decades and decades. We have all recently experience long waiting lists, whether it be for health or a planning application and are entitled to let off steam and moan.
I cannot add up all the taxes I've paid from working since 17 but I imagine it comes to a very high amount.That is why I'm not expecting a bill through my letterbox any day soon.🙂🙂🙂🙂
Oh, and the longer they keep me alive, well at least till pension start date, the more society benefits as long as I keep paying my taxes.🙂

 

[grovesy]

Well you are lucky then.
My surgery has cut back on many services , I have a medication review later this week and it is not with a Doctor or a Pharmacist like I have done in the past, it is with a Medication Consultant, and when I questioned the receptionist as to this person's qualifications she was taken a back, and said one down from a Doctor so I am guessing they are what is known as a Physcians Assistant, so I wait with baited breathe.

 

[trophywench]

What a luxury - a walk-in clinic!!! - only if reception agree it's an emergency are you invited to progress to the waiting room. If it's full of kids cos the schools have an outbreak of anything, you're unlikely to be seen cos they get priority.

A 3-4 mile journey to the drop-in centre and 4 or 5 hours is a normal wait there - even children can be waiting over a hour in there! All consultations take forever because they have no access to your previous ailments or test results if the centre didn't deal with them.

However - I still agree they do a fantastic job once you achieve access. They don't choose to make it like this - it's simply a fact of Life that they are too hard-pressed round here - along with all the senior schools being over-subscribed yet they're trying to build new estates on green belt land that floods even in normal winters and the houses bordering it had to have 10ft deept rafts under them, so its just the back gardens that disappear under 2 or 3 ft of water (when there are various sites that are classed as 'brown' but they could only fit say 150 dwellings on each instead of the 1200 they want to fit in in one place) with no provision for either shops, schools nor Drs surgeries or bus routes.

Too many people pulling in too many different directions and no joined up thinking .......

 

[trophywench]

I shouldn't bait your breath if I were you @grovesy - mealworms? boilies? maggots? Yukkkk!

Might be better off bating it methinks ! LOL

 

[JMyrtle]

We have no problem getting a G.P. appointment, call at 9.00 pm and seen that morning,( surgeries from 9.00 to 12.00 noon)
It what happens afterwards that's the problem, average wait for consultant or scan three months by which time its either got better by itself or you are in A&E!

 

[Mark Parrott]

We have a walk-in clinic every day between 8.30 & 10.30 & you will get seen usually within half an hour, though due to doctors being sick, there has been no walk-in clinic for a few days. Overall, our GP surgery is pretty good.

 

[mikeyB]

I was told that I would have access to a walk-in clinic if I got a pump. Trouble was, that was in Paisley. Long walk, 80 miles.

 

[Davein]

I was told that I would have access to a walk-in clinic if I got a pump. Trouble was, that was in Paisley. Long walk, 80 miles.

Was that just one way Mike or did you have to walk 80 miles back?

 

[mikeyB]

That’s one way. And no I don’t have a pump. Yet. When I move, I expect a 6 mile bus ride.🙂