O/T Contacting GP Surgery

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

During 1970's one of mates was under a GP surgery at Goldthorpe, when he telephoned
for a appointment, he had to wait 2 weeks to see a doctor.
Yet my GP surgery, telephoned in a morning, could normally get in same day.

[avondalemiller]

I have had 2 op's on my hands due to Dupuytrens, i asked for an appointment to make a referal to RDG, she said i could have someone ring me to talk about my problem, she suggested a week on Thursday at 1.00 to 1.30............ffs.

......and lo and behold, a nurse rang on the Appointment date and said, yeah, i can see from your notes, i'll refer you. And that was that.

Sept 14th at RDG, at least they replied quickly enough.

[gm_gm]

I think the pay for a salaried GP is somewhere between £63K and £94K, a bit short of your £120K but no bad, I have to admit. Senior practice partners may earn more, I don't know.

Plus private work at which point they will see people at the drop of a hat, this can add another £60-70k

[Steve Miller]

And do you think dumping a minimum of 20,000 Afghans and 15,000+ dinghy people per year is going to make the situation any better?

Or for schools?

Or for housing?

I'd like to follow the thread of your complete non sequiteur thinking... if there were one.

[Steve Miller]

That's a bit of a generalisation.
I'm registered at Kiveton Park surgery and can usually get an appointment the same day or the following day.
It has always intrigued me how they can do things so well while others seem so poor.
Perhaps those surgeries that have problems could benefit from investigating the procedures and processes at the better ones to establish where improvements can be implemented.

Well that may be so in rarefied KP but I can tell you that in the Dearne Valley GPs have refused to see ANY patients since last Spring and are continuing to do so. Speaking as one who has had to communicate through an intercom on the street outside the surgery to physicians who obviously can't heal themselves. They've made a mockery of the NHS and are a disgrace.

[mellowmiller]

Well that may be so in rarefied KP but I can tell you that in the Dearne Valley GPs have refused to see ANY patients since last Spring and are continuing to do so. Speaking as one who has had to communicate through an intercom on the street outside the surgery to physicians who obviously can't heal themselves. They've made a mockery of the NHS and are a disgrace.

My point is if one surgery can do it why can't others?
Believe me the Kiveton surgery is very busy so it's got nothing to do with patient numbers..

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

The whole system is very close to collapse

[gm_gm]

The whole system is very close to collapse

It is, and it will become a two tiered system

[jocksgloves]

Our doctors haven't been sighted for 18 months. They don't want to know. Very much like the doctors in the great plague, they've run away. Should with hold their government funds.

[ragingpup]

I'd like to follow the thread of your complete non sequiteur thinking... if there were one.

Lol. I read te OP soon after it was posted yesterday morning and thought that Gristy would get his Faragey crowbar out to level the topic onto his obsession.