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Post by moonraker on Apr 19, 2022 9:01:05 GMT
I've long had an arrangement with a pharmacist ten minutes' walk from me whereby I ring them up every two months and ask for repeat prescriptions and they collect them from the GP and I then go in and get them. I have to allow five working days for this.
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Post by keitha on Apr 19, 2022 9:11:08 GMT
Nope, All emails rejected by auto reply "due to Covid staff are to busy to handle patient emails". ( Yes I tried )
I've put a complaint in to health board, as the only way to get through is via phone and the "gatekeeper" at the other end acts as if she is personally paying if she gives anyone an appointment.
Telephone consultations are scheduled at least a week away, and she quite haughtily told me that a face to face appointment would be at least another 3 weeks after that.
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Post by benaj on Apr 19, 2022 9:24:39 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Apr 19, 2022 11:18:50 GMT
This is today's GP service, hence my reluctance to engage with one without a bit of a push. That's THAT surgery. Change to a different one. Remember, surgeries are private businesses contracted to the NHS.
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Post by bernythedolt on Apr 19, 2022 12:20:45 GMT
This is today's GP service, hence my reluctance to engage with one without a bit of a push. That's THAT surgery. Change to a different one. Remember, surgeries are private businesses contracted to the NHS. I did suggest he change to a different practice, but aren't they all much the same now? Telephone consultations only, phone at 8am to try for a slot that day, no forward appointments possible. These surgeries would work brilliantly, but for pesky patients keep getting in the way.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 19, 2022 12:31:19 GMT
That's THAT surgery. Change to a different one. Remember, surgeries are private businesses contracted to the NHS. I did suggest he change to a different practice, but aren't they all much the same now? Telephone consultations only, phone at 8am to try for a slot that day, no forward appointments possible. And that's how the poor ones get away with it, customer stasis. See also: Banks.
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Post by bernythedolt on Apr 19, 2022 12:37:23 GMT
I've long had an arrangement with a pharmacist ten minutes' walk from me whereby I ring them up every two months and ask for repeat prescriptions and they collect them from the GP and I then go in and get them. I have to allow five working days for this. Bi-monthly is a bonus. We used to be able to repeat-prescription every three months, but my local Health Board recently decided to reduce it to monthly, for reasons unknown. Of course, that makes the GP and chemist even busier. I've told my practice it's neither convenient nor ecologically sound to have to drive the several miles to the chemist to pick up my prescription monthly rather than quarterly, but they claim it's out of their hands... and they support the Health Board.
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Post by keitha on Apr 19, 2022 15:05:57 GMT
Of course the pharmacy won't object they get paid a fee per item dispensed.
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Post by keitha on Apr 19, 2022 15:07:54 GMT
EEK asked a few friends and neighbours today who they were with It appears mine is poor but the other local one is worse, the other option is to go 5 miles away
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Post by benaj on Apr 19, 2022 15:17:44 GMT
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Post by michaelc on Apr 19, 2022 15:41:56 GMT
And while some of us (me incluided) are moaning about GPs I'd like to moan about dentists while I'm at it.
I find the NHS ones inadequate unless you already have a good set of teeth and they are just doing some simple fillings. Private are IMO only slightly better. Root canals on the other hand take hours to do properly, involve the use of dental microscope and are ideally not performed by general dentists but by specialist endodontists of which we have too few and are extremely expensive. The alternative is often for the tooth to be pulled.
That was one example. For a general idea just look around at people's teeth when they smile and compare it to many other countries.
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Post by agent69 on Apr 19, 2022 16:31:42 GMT
Flight cancellations are common place. The Guardian are obviously trying to big up the story by saying that 78 BA flights were cancelled, which is really only 39 (as if the outbound gets cancelled so does the return). It's no big deal.
If you want over reaction look at the flying forums and see the reaction to a Donald Trump appointed federal judge (who isn't sufficiently qualified to be a Federal judge) in Florida declaring that the CDC mask mandate on flights is illegal
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Post by registerme on Apr 27, 2022 10:47:43 GMT
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Post by ilmoro on Apr 27, 2022 11:46:01 GMT
Depends on whether anyone actually reads the judgement - it basically rejects most of the claims but upholds that the Secretary & PHE failed to consider the risk of asymptomatic inflection rationally and advise quarantine for patients who hadnt tested negative where practical - it is a very narrow and limited verdict. The Court didnt find the policy unlawful in itself ... the headline is as usual misleading. www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2022/967.html&query=harris+gardner+health
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Post by registerme on Apr 27, 2022 12:22:57 GMT
Depends on whether anyone actually reads the judgement - it basically rejects most of the claims but upholds that the Secretary & PHE failed to consider the risk of asymptomatic inflection rationally and advise quarantine for patients who hadnt tested negative where practical - it is a very narrow and limited verdict. The Court didnt find the policy unlawful in itself ... the headline is as usual misleading. www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2022/967.html&query=harris+gardner+healthThanks for the link.
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