O/T GP Surgeries & Treatment

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

I have done this posting due to the serious events that happened to my wife.

During the week Monday 11th October to Thursday 14th October, my wife was very ill,
Monday kept telephoning the GP surgery, getting no where on the phone, ( After myself
being on hold for 2hrs 18 mins over a month ago ), I went to the GP surgery Tuesday
morning at 8.30am, went into the surgery, all the shutters closed on the receptionist
windows, even though there was staff there.
I went to the intercom, to which they answered, I told them my wife was very ill, & that
she needed to see a doctor, a lady said she would get someone to phone my wife, in the
afternoon a practitioner phoned my wife, from the surgery, my wife told her she thought
that she ought to have a blood test, so the practitioner said, if my wife thought this she
could have a blood test, & that she would tell the receptionist to do a form, for my wife to
have a blood test at Montagu Hospital. To which the surgery would contact my wife.
Normally when having a blood test from our GP surgery, you pick up a form signed by the
GP, no one contacted my wife until Wednesday afternoon, when the practitioner asked my
wife if she had been for a blood test, my wife replied she had not had any contact from
the GP surgery to pick up the form.
The practitioner said it was digitally sent to the hospital, but no one had informed my wife
from the surgery.
My wife was too ill to go for the blood test Thursday, so I took her to Montagu Hospital on
Friday morning for 9am to have the blood test.
Friday afternoon at 4pm, a doctor phoned from the GP surgery, saying my wife had to go
to hospital straight away for a blood transfusion, after her blood count was dangerously
low.
I took my wife to Rotherham General Hospital, after being told to go straight to a ward,
where my wife was admitted to hospital, having 2 blood transfusions & 1 Floinject
vitamin transfusion, when my wife was admitted, her hemoglobin blood count was 55g/L.

Hemoglobin values.
Grades
Moderate ---------------- 80-110 g/L
Severe ----------------- - 65-79 g/L
Life threatening below -- 65 g/L

Normal values Women --- 120-160 g/L
Normal values Men ------- 140-180 g/L

My wife was released from hospital Saturday night at 8pm, her blood count 87 g/L

I took my wife back to hospital on Saturday 23rd October, for another Floinject vitamin
transfusion, where we spent 6 hours in the hospital.
Consultant arranged for my wife to have a Gastroscopy & Colonoscopy examination, which
she had at Rotherham General hospital on Wednesday 27th October, after first having a
covid test at Woodside, Moorgate road on Sunday 24th October.
My wife still has to have a scan, to be arranged.

GP surgeries booking a appointment, to have to explain symptoms to a receptionist, before
getting a chance to see a doctor, is totally out of order, what medical qualifications has a
receptionist got.
But it took my wife to have to ask for a blood test, a nurse at the hospital said, it was a
good job she did, because her blood levels were dangerously low.

One of my mates blood count is 126 g/L but his doctor told him he needs treatment to
bring the level up.

[Shark27]

I have done this posting due to the serious events that happened to my wife.

During the week Monday 11th October to Thursday 14th October, my wife was very ill,
Monday kept telephoning the GP surgery, getting no where on the phone, ( After myself
being on hold for 2hrs 18 mins over a month ago ), I went to the GP surgery Tuesday
morning at 8.30am, went into the surgery, all the shutters closed on the receptionist
windows, even though there was staff there.
I went to the intercom, to which they answered, I told them my wife was very ill, & that
she needed to see a doctor, a lady said she would get someone to phone my wife, in the
afternoon a practitioner phoned my wife, from the surgery, my wife told her she thought
that she ought to have a blood test, so the practitioner said, if my wife thought this she
could have a blood test, & that she would tell the receptionist to do a form, for my wife to
have a blood test at Montagu Hospital. To which the surgery would contact my wife.
Normally when having a blood test from our GP surgery, you pick up a form signed by the
GP, no one contacted my wife until Wednesday afternoon, when the practitioner asked my
wife if she had been for a blood test, my wife replied she had not had any contact from
the GP surgery to pick up the form.
The practitioner said it was digitally sent to the hospital, but no one had informed my wife
from the surgery.
My wife was too ill to go for the blood test Thursday, so I took her to Montagu Hospital on
Friday morning for 9am to have the blood test.
Friday afternoon at 4pm, a doctor phoned from the GP surgery, saying my wife had to go
to hospital straight away for a blood transfusion, after her blood count was dangerously
low.
I took my wife to Rotherham General Hospital, after being told to go straight to a ward,
where my wife was admitted to hospital, having 2 blood transfusions & 1 Floinject
vitamin transfusion, when my wife was admitted, her hemoglobin blood count was 55g/L.

Hemoglobin values.
Grades
Moderate ---------------- 80-110 g/L
Severe ----------------- - 65-79 g/L
Life threatening below -- 65 g/L

Normal values Women --- 120-160 g/L
Normal values Men ------- 140-180 g/L

My wife was released from hospital Saturday night at 8pm, her blood count 87 g/L

I took my wife back to hospital on Saturday 23rd October, for another Floinject vitamin
transfusion, where we spent 6 hours in the hospital.
Consultant arranged for my wife to have a Gastroscopy & Colonoscopy examination, which
she had at Rotherham General hospital on Wednesday 27th October, after first having a
covid test at Woodside, Moorgate road on Sunday 24th October.
My wife still has to have a scan, to be arranged.

GP surgeries booking a appointment, to have to explain symptoms to a receptionist, before
getting a chance to see a doctor, is totally out of order, what medical qualifications has a
receptionist got.
But it took my wife to have to ask for a blood test, a nurse at the hospital said, it was a
good job she did, because her blood levels were dangerously low.

One of my mates blood count is 126 g/L but his doctor told him he needs treatment to
bring the level up.

Hope your wife feels better soon Eric.

Don't think all aspects of the NHS deserve much of a clap over that episode!!

[avondalemiller]

Hope she's fine now pal. Sounds an ordinary roundabout way the GP's do business nowadays and i think we should get back to the "old" ways soon. Unfortunately the Doctors seem to think it's not going to happen.

After my attempts at getting a flu jab with Woodstock Bower, they seem to make everything so complicated. I have an appointment for the Flu jab on Nov 9th, while my mate has had is at Boots with very little fuss.

The world's going mad...................

[CAMiller]

Hope your wife feels better soon Eric.

Don't think all aspects of the NHS deserve much of a clap over that episode!!

Obviously I don't have any recent experience of the NHS and Emergency Services over there and I hope your Mrs. is doing OK ELK but with what to me seems like a critical situation I think I'd have been heading to casualty or dialing 999.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Obviously I don't have any recent experience of the NHS and Emergency Services over there and I hope your Mrs. is doing OK ELK but with what to me seems like a critical situation I think I'd have been heading to casualty or dialing 999.

At first CAMiller, we thought it was the after effects of the flu jab.

[Grumpy King of the West]

Best wishes to your wife ELK.

[BramleyMiller58]

I may well have been sat in the waiting room at the same time as your wife.

I was in from 2pm

Hope she gets sorted soon

Mine came back clear (apart from polyps !)

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

I may well have been sat in the waiting room at the same time as your wife.

I was in from 2pm

Hope she gets sorted soon

Mine came back clear (apart from polyps !)

Wifes appointment was 10am, they could not do a full colonoscopy, said they could not
get to the upper part of the bowel.
Therefore a scan needed, wife also had some polyps removed.
The Gastroscopy & Colonoscopy was looking for loss of blood areas.
So ongoing scan needed.

[Lolmorgan]

How can the doctor send your wife for a bloody test without examining her, how did he determine what was wrong with her so he could see if she had to fast for 12hrs or what the blood test was for.Unless he puts on the blood form what he his testing for it’s a waste of time.I think it’s time you changed doctors & ring 111 next time.

[great_fire]

GPs need to offer other ways of contacting them, when it's phone only of course it will be difficult to get through, what's wrong with email? Its 2021 FFS!