Been summoned to doctors with symptoms of cold!

[Caramelblonde]

Hi there,thoughts on this please.Doctor is withholding my repeat prescription unless I go to surgery today for review.I have cold symptoms,auto immune disease and run out of meds now.

CV symptoms are a fever, dry cough tiredness and short of breath. None of these are the same as having a cold. I have a cold and haven’t for one second thought I may have CV.

Update -Some people on here are so rude,calling me entitled and daft.I did not let my meds run out the repeat was ordered as usual.Went to collect last Friday and it wasn't there.Pharmacy thought I'd out it in too early,you can only order when on last week of months supply.There is no way you can hold a months supply back.Pharmacy reordered for me and I went back again yesterday,again nothing.I do not see Gp for meds it's electronic.Hospital do shared care once you have been on meds for years,and it's all about the money.Rang surgery today and was told to go in for review,first I'd been aware .When I explained I had beginning of cough and cold and should stay away I was told 111 gives wrong advice and to go to surgery.Decided to phone my consultants secretary.She was in support of me and tried to get my prescription,because of shared care was unable to do this.So I went to Gp in a cab with a temperature and sneezing.I was not popular there at all.Got diagnosed with bronchitis and given my prescription and hurried out,no meds review done.What a nightmare,my prescription is all here now but I am 100% worse than if it was done over the phone.

How are you worse off?

Well looks as though your doctor was right to insist that they saw you because it seems your self diagnosed minor ailment turned out to be something your GP needed to be aware of in relation to your other medical needs. And since I don't believe that bronchitis is infectious I don't imagine you have seriously discombobulated any other patients.

So you didn't have corona virus, got treatment for bronchitis and got your repeat prescription? And you're complaining?

So you’re immunosuppressed, you have bronchitis, and you’re upset your GP wanted to see you and give you antibiotics?

Yep, what a negligent bastard they sound.

This is part of the QUF requirements give them a ring and explain the situation it may be a computer generated.

So you got diagnosed with bronchitis. Sounds like it was beneficial for you to go then.

OP YABVVU

Would you have been discharged with bronchitis over the phone? You're complaining about getting the kind of treatment that most people complain about if they don't get it. Ridiculous.

As I understand it, the advice is not to go into your doctor’s surgery if you have flu/cold type symptoms and have been in a CV area or in contact with someone who has. In any event, once they told you to come in knowing that you had cold type symptoms you really had no valid reason not to.

You’re not worse off at all. Total opposite. They diagnosed you (luckily) with bronchitis; they didn’t give you bronchitis.

If you are immune suppressed a cold is very likely to turn into bronchitis.Doctor will send antibiotics after phone consultation.As my consultant Secretary said what should not happen is sending vulnerable patients into doctors surgeries ,where we could potentially pick up anything ,including coronavirus.

How would you pick up Coronavirus from a GP's surgery OP?

I’m immune suppressed. Often catch colds but never bronchitis. I haven’t been told it’s a risk either.

Looks like your doctor was right in this instance

Look on the bright side, you have your meds, know you have bronchitis and can be treated for it.

Yeah I’m immune suppressed (technically) and I bloody WORK in a GP surgery. They’re not hotbeds of infectious diseases. Even currently, as we turn away anyone with suspected Covid-19....

The consultants secretary, with all respect, is a secretary. Not a clinician.

but I am 100% worse than if it was done over the phone

Oh behave.

YAseriouslyUR. Do you not think your consultants secretary had better things to be doing than ringing your GP’s secretary to try and over ride what a doctor had asked to be done? It’s your doctors signature on that prescription and they’ll do whatever they feel is necessary before they issue it.

If I was a GP and a consultants secretary took it upon themselves to tell me how to prescribe (not even the consultant themselves!) I’d be sending a short tempered letter to the consultant telling them to remind their staff to know their professional limitations.

I believe in the NHS but I also believe that it’s failings should be discussed every single time. This isn’t one of those times.

o, last year I thought I'd do the sensible thing and ring to make a review appointment at a time they can put me in so I'm not taking an emergency appointment but they won't put me in until the doctor needs to sign the repeat when they'll decide at the time whether to issue or not

They refused you a book ahead appointment? I didn't think you needed to tell them what it was for if you were booking a routine one in advance, only if you were trying to get an urgent one?

@Lycanthropology, before calling me ignorant, maybe take a second to read my posts properly? As I’ve said twice now I was referring to the poster whose GP called her in for review and when she got there said she didn’t fucking need one. Tell me please how that’s not a waste of a fucking appointment??!

My consultant has now phoned and is arranging for someone to come and take swabs for testing.I should not have gone to surgery and she asked why I didn't do what her PA told me,as she is part of the team providing a link for advice.Current protocol is not to attend GP,and this may be changing to include hospital appointments too.Just hope I get a negative result.

This is not your fault, your meds were withheld, so you had to chase up. Glad you got antibiotics for bronchitis though.

@Caramelblonde I get what you mean. The fact you were diagnosed with bronchitis and got antibiotics is neither here nor there. They could have done that over the phone.

It's the fact that they are going against their own policy by having you attend surgery and open yourself up to risk of catching anything, not just coronavirus, when it could all be done by phone.

Can you put a written complaint into the practice manager as the policy for immune compromised patients and med reviews is clashing. Hoe would they do a med review on a housebound 75 year old if they won't do it over the phone? Whatever they would do in that case is what should be done in yours. As you shouldn't attend the surgery.

People can be very rude and it says more about them than you.

It may also be an idea to copy any letter into the consultant too. So they know you are taking it further. I bet the consultant is livid at the GP.

My consultant put me on some meds. gave me a prescription I said how do I get them on repeat if GP refuses. He said refer them to me. GPs have in our surgery been known to do this.