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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 30, 2020 11:52:48 GMT
I have been trying to see a GP about something relatively minor. In north of a month, I have had... * one brief phone conversation with the GP (diarised a week in advance) * a urine test (pick bottle up at convenience, drop back later, chase results a week later) * a blood test (two week lead time for appointment with healthcare assistant, now approaching a fortnight with no word of the results). In the last week, there were five positive covid tests in this region of the county. If it's like my GP they don't bother to tell you the results if they are OK. Best to ring to make sure they got the results! In my experience, they don't bother to tell you the results if they're NOT ok either. I recently suffered a thankfully mild but protracted attack of (what I suspected to be) gout in my foot. Consulted GP (telephone only). I have to suggest a blood test may be in order. Two weeks later, no call back, so I request printout emailed to me....serum urate is just over the top of the safe range. Not a word from the GP to this day. I'm getting used to DIY medicine.
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Post by benaj on Oct 30, 2020 13:27:04 GMT
If it's like my GP they don't bother to tell you the results if they are OK. Best to ring to make sure they got the results! In my experience, they don't bother to tell you the results if they're NOT ok either. I recently suffered a thankfully mild but protracted attack of (what I suspected to be) gout in my foot. Consulted GP (telephone only). I have to suggest a blood test may be in order. Two weeks later, no call back, so I request printout emailed to me....serum urate is just over the top of the safe range. Not a word from the GP to this day. I'm getting used to DIY medicine. so, who’s responsibility to ensure patents receive the results on time?
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Post by adrianc on Oct 30, 2020 13:51:31 GMT
I have been trying to see a GP about something relatively minor. In north of a month, I have had... * one brief phone conversation with the GP (diarised a week in advance) * a urine test (pick bottle up at convenience, drop back later, chase results a week later) * a blood test (two week lead time for appointment with healthcare assistant, now approaching a fortnight with no word of the results). In the last week, there were five positive covid tests in this region of the county. If it's like my GP they don't bother to tell you the results if they are OK. Best to ring to make sure they got the results! Oh, I know they got 'em... because I can see 'em on the online patient access website. And the results are all within what are shown as the normal ranges... I don't understand a bloody word of 'em beyond that, but I am relatively heartened in that. Reports of my imminent demise appear exaggerated. Thankfully.
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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 30, 2020 14:08:22 GMT
In my experience, they don't bother to tell you the results if they're NOT ok either. I recently suffered a thankfully mild but protracted attack of (what I suspected to be) gout in my foot. Consulted GP (telephone only). I have to suggest a blood test may be in order. Two weeks later, no call back, so I request printout emailed to me....serum urate is just over the top of the safe range. Not a word from the GP to this day. I'm getting used to DIY medicine. so, who’s responsibility to ensure patents receive the results on time? "On time" isn't the issue here. It's the quality of the GP's advice (or rather the total absence of any advice or care) that I question. The same practice also failed to call me or my wife in for our PPV vaccine two years running, until I discovered quite by accident that you're supposed to be offered it routinely at age 65. Little would they care if we'd contracted pneumonia as a result of missing that crucial vaccine. We've had the jab this week, but purely through my own endeavours and a big dollop of luck. DIY medicine.
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Post by registerme on Oct 30, 2020 14:14:07 GMT
Have you tried complaining to the Practice Manager?
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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 30, 2020 14:49:28 GMT
It's crossed my mind, and it's the right thing to do, but we're too concerned about the consequences. Self-preservation must come first. The last thing we need at our age is to generate bad feeling from our doctor or the practice.
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Post by firedog on Oct 30, 2020 15:35:48 GMT
I've just read that the English, Scottish and Welsh track and trace app data isn't aggregated or interoperable. Can anybody confirm that? Why do we need three different apps? At the worst surely different branding would do it? If I remember correctly the UK Govt's (for England and Wales) initial approach was essentially to develop its own app and not use the Apple/Google technology that other countries had adopted. This was subject to lengthy delays and Scotland then chose to go a different way, which I think is based on the Irish app and uses Apple/Google technology. They launched that in early September. England/Wales switched to Apple/Google technology and launched its app in late September. No idea why the apps don't share data though - presumably because they're running different systems there might be all sorts of data problems. They do work together in the limited sense that the Scottish one prompts you to use the English one when you cross the border.
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Post by benaj on Oct 30, 2020 16:02:43 GMT
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Post by registerme on Oct 30, 2020 16:49:42 GMT
Yeah, jonah PMed me with similar information not long after my post criticising the implementation. It may be down to the devolved administrations (and I have on record my support for more decentralisation), however it did not need to be. It's just poor design and lack of communication.
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Post by adrianc on Oct 30, 2020 17:22:51 GMT
If I remember correctly the UK Govt's (for England and Wales) initial approach was essentially to develop its own app and not use the Apple/Google technology that other countries had adopted. This was subject to lengthy delays... Not so much "lengthy delay" - it simply did not work, and was never going to work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52995881Hancock said it was all Apple's fault that only 4% of iPhones were detected in trials, despite it missing a quarter of Android phones, too.
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Post by registerme on Oct 30, 2020 17:41:07 GMT
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Post by agent69 on Oct 30, 2020 17:49:23 GMT
Based on a document that was published today, but which is over 2 weeks old?
I do find the current information being provided by the media less than helpful. Daily rates may be 50,000 or 100,000 depending on which survey you believe, and the R rate may be going up or down (again depending on whether you look at Sky or the BBC).
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Post by adrianc on Oct 30, 2020 18:00:19 GMT
Going back to the very start of this thread... It's going to get worse.
I know this because it hasn't been on front cover of The Economist yet. The Economist is one of the best contrarian signals in existance. Once it's on the front cover and they are bleating what a crisis it's going to be, you can be sure the problem has peaked ... I doubt the Economist will cover it. A pandemic spreading doesn't fit comfortably with their globalist, no border, no national identities, citizen of the world agenda. The first Economist Covid cover was 27th Feb. www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2020-02-29
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Post by Mike on Oct 30, 2020 18:00:48 GMT
Based on a document that was published today, but which is over 2 weeks old? I do find the current information being provided by the media less than helpful. Daily rates may be 50,000 or 100,000 depending on which survey you believe, and the R rate may be going up or down (again depending on whether you look at Sky or the BBC).
Think they measure success in clicks now not quality of content. How many people post the news article on toktik and snapschat etc. Very valuable indicators of winning journalism
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Post by Mike on Oct 30, 2020 18:02:06 GMT
Going back to the very start of this thread... Scintillating 400+ page thriller you had to go back and reread from the start? You're in for a long night
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