Don't want to get into NHS cuts/costs etc - it is the mentality behind this that is annoying me...who thought this was a workable/sensible/good idea?
So I have dodgy bloody - had a couple of DVTs years ago now have to err on the side of caution. Have a slightly swollen sore leg but did sleep funny on it...
Left it all day yesterday to see if it got better it didn't...ended up phoning 111 and going to OOH GP - phoned at 9.15 got an appointment with OOH GP at 1am. 
Agreed looks dodgy - a DVT - gave me fragmin injections and an appointment at the acute medical unit a the local hospital this afternoon.
(Now actually think I should have just gone straight to A&E -but that's another IABU)
Turn up this afternoon staff fantastic - my story is complicated - possible misdiagnosis of a blood disorder etc (my notes were in a mess and incomplete - spread over 4 hospitals - discovered today a fantastic haemotologist I saw once a few years ago has finally (after over 20yrs) managed to get all my notes together and write a synopsis - I love him!).
My blood test for DVT came back negative - but that's not 100% reliable -Doctor really thought I needed a scan...but she can only ask for two scans a day. She has already gone over her allowance so she is really sorry but her next available slot is on Mon. She has booked me in and given me enough fragmin to self inject till Mon...
I feel bad about taking the slot - someone might need it more (I actually asked if I could pay or something to not take it out of her allowance but I can't) ...that she had to apologise ...and also with the fragmin dissolving the 'clot' by Monday the result might be inconclusive (this has happened to me once before - kept on a ward for 5 days because it was the Easter weekend - by the time I got a scan it was inconclusive) - and actually for my record I would like it to be confirmed or not - inconclusive adds to the confusion. Or worse if it is one I might get a PE ... would be ambulance etc - a lot more of time and expense...(if I didn't die - and sure that would be a hassle too) .
Basically the NHS has paid for me to see 2 doctors and a nurse - blood test, fragmin I may not need (and luckily I did the injections when pregnant or they would have either had to fit me in with a nurse to do it for me - or teach me how to do it then ...and it is a hard thing to do at first). And I will be back on Mon taking up more of the doctors time...and it might not even by the same one -so might have to go through everything again...
Alternative a scan that will take tops 10 mins.. if clear - I'm ticked off out of the system ... without another unconfirmed DVT clouding my notes...
AIBU to think it is a stupid system?