My doctor was late to my appointment because he had been at the local country hotel full of asylum seekers...

The ‘temporary accommodations’ are literally hotels (and sometimes B&Bs).
Street homelessness is a whole other problem with complex causes and so,U-turns.

What do you pay yourself?

Well of course it impacts othere if she can't organise herself and patients are waiting back at the practice.
Maybe they should do these sessions in the afternoon so if they overrun due to poor time management the only person affected is the GP and if they're late off they might review things.

i live somewhere with very few AS, and I can tell you the wait for a non-urgent GP appointment is definitely 4-6 weeks. Home visits are not done by the surgery GPs.

My cousin with terminal cancer did not get a home visit; she was referred to a palliative care agency (a nightmare).

Those of you getting same-day appointments for “an uncomfortable condition” or receiving home visits for e-coli - this sounds unbelievable based on my experience.

The point was more that her working for half a day elsewhere doesn't take anything from anybody because she wouldn't be working at her surgery during that time anyway.

But I'd expect that the potential for sessions to overrun and people be waiting beyond their appointment time is no different when she's in surgery really because it isn't a perfect world in which every problem can fit neatly into a 7 minute slot.

Well there you go, your pal is contracted for half a day. She isn't doing it with a waiting room full back at the practice is she?

Time management and organisation all that is needed <granted not GPs strong points> plus adhering to whatever session they are supposed to be in.

Kindly, you're a bit of an idiot.

One of my close friends is a GP and visits asylum seekers accommodation twice a week. Once in her official capacity, for which she is contracted to be there for a half day and will see as many people as time allows. The other day she works on a voluntary basis. The care given is no different whether she is contracted or volunteering. It is basic.

You can't expect people who have an allowance of £9 per week, who are usually placed in accommodation with no infrastructure within walking distance, to make their own medical arrangements. How can they register with a GP when they don't yet have any status to be here?

Incidentally, I made a non-emergency appointment with my surgery this morning for Friday.

Or stay home with the rest of your family, until you know it is safe.

Really a long and arduous journey, involving god knows what!

Before anyone jumps in this is a genuine question, not for goadiness, I'm trying to understand why the AS are only men.

They're not, @PatchouliPrincess . I've worked with quite a few refugee clients over the years, and a fair few of them were women and, in one case, an entire family.

They all arrived here as asylum seekers.

I agree with you OP, but you'd get more joy playing leftie bingo...

Racist ✓
Goady✓
Daily mail reader✓
Just to name a few.

I think MNHQ should have stuck by their instincts that made them hide this thread initially, rather than accept whatever bullshit OP fed them when they got in touch with her.

Let's face it : there are people who'd like to see their boats shot down so they drown in the Channel before getting here at all.

Did OP actually say how late the Dr was?

Is this whole ragebait thread actually because there were roadworks and the journey back took 5 mins longer than it ought to?

Notice too that the op has now disappeared since dropping the cat amongst the pigeons too...!

Can you imagine the ops reaction if they block booked surgery appointments for groups too, she'd had kittens that they were hanging round in groups at her doctors and that nowhere was safe.

i dont receive any benefits, THANK YOU i work and i pay a lot towards NI I pay for private healthcare, dentist and prescriptions so you dont pay for me so wind your neck in..i was just giving an example re my husbands contributions my husband is retired but still works full time so maybe his contributions arent as big as yours..bloody snob looking down your nose at people

And herein lies the problem. There are twice as many GPs in my doctors practice as there were 30 years ago when I joined. Back then you get a next day visit. So why cant you anymore?
Well mostly because most of them only work part time, no evening clinics, no Saturday morning clinics, and people wonder why A&E is always packed

😂

You've never been to South London, have you?

I just get a same day appointment or telephone appointment.

to what ever..i dont care x

Just seems a strange thing to do and ‘why not’ isn’t really an answer. I was just curious as to the rationale but it seems there wasn’t one.

well good for you ,,you obs earn more so thats why you pay more duh .....just cos youre "happy" to fund healthcare for every tom dick or harry who comes here illegally theres a lot who can't afford to keep chucking our hard earned money to these people...im happy for you to dig deeper but dont expect all of us to follow

Even if those feelings of frustration are born out of racism or misunderstanding?

Do you think the OP would have started a thread if her appointment was delayed because the GP visited a care home?

I have no idea I wasn't at the doctors. I just know I rang, told them my dad wanted me to ring an ambulance. She told me to tell him he didnt need one and she would come. I dont remember having an appointment time. She turned up, let herself in the back door and attended to my dad.

Doctors always run late anyway. I cant think of a time I've seen a doctor and theyve been on time.

Wait times vary from area to area. People's wait times may be longer for a multitude of different reasons, one of which could be asylum seekers.

But when the optics are that an individual is experiencing longer wait times (or a late GP) because the GP is busy seeing asylum seekers, it must feel frustrating for them. Personally, I don't think it's helpful to anyone to invalidate their feelings of frustration.