To think that booking in at GP surgery is bad hygiene ?

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Just been to GP surgery, to check in you have to enter your date of birth on a touch screen and confirm your details and appointment.

AIBU to think that this is crazy? I know there is always some hand-gel nearby but not everyone uses it. There must be allsorts of germs on sick peoples hands.

I always use my knuckles and then loads of gel

I work in a shop and i regularly clean the trolley handles and the chip and pin machine. I also carry the top notch anti viral had gel too . I am emetophobic so this is all second nature to me. My doctors has a screen, i wont go near the thing its hard enough going to the doctors let alone touching something everyone else has touched.

Doctors waiting room touch screens have got to be a bad idea as surely they are going to carry viruses from ill patients. Especially as we now have the corona virus in the uk.

Zombie thread but I'll bite :

Many viruses cannot live on surfaces only the human body

Ask your GP Surgery what their Infection Control Policy is regarding multi-use screens .

Oh and Infection Control includes everyone so that means effective sanitation.
Soap/Water or use of gel on clean hands

More germs on a supermarket trolley handle than your toilet seat 'n' all that .

So your mobile phone and steering wheel in the car are completely germ free? Pump at petrol station, door handles everywhere you touch in public spaces or on trains, pretty much every item in a supermarket or shop unless it is a hot item, chairs in coffee shops, bank notes and coins, seats on an airplane etc - do you imagine they are germ free and hygienic?
We are surrounded by microbes, bacteria and viruses, we always have been, we need to remember to wash our hands.

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Agree OP, y husband and I were discussing this only this afternoon! It is very silly.

My dentist has human receptionists to book you in so why can't a doctor? And you're less likely to have nasty lurgies when you visit the dentist - the whole point of being at the GP is that you are ill (unless you are there for something routine like contraception).

As for the supermarket self-checkout you don't actually have to touch anything depending on the store. Scan items and use contactless (except WH Smith who ask you a million questions - maybe they can persuaded to change the software!)

Most people at the GP aren’t “sick” in the sense they have something infectious or contagious though. They just have persistent symptoms that need looking at, or possibly mental health issues.

I refuse to use the one at my surgery after seeing a man sneeze over it. It's out of sight of the reception so nobody knew until I mentioned at the desk and asked to be checked in the old way because it was literally covered in droplets. After 3 people complained someone went and wiped it and the wipe they used was filthy after.

Given they have signs up about how they spent money on automatic doors, and on automation in the toilet, for hygiene reasons it's baffling they installed this.