To refuse to feel guilty for using the NHS when I actually need to?

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Sick of the guilt about how you shouldn't see your GP go to a and e or ring ooh AIBU to use them if I need to?

Catvsworld if you're on a lot/certain medication a simple thing pharmacist won't help or prescribe you anything so you have to go to the gp.
I also have had to go to the gp as i couldn't afford to buy things from the pharmacy as i was only recieving £74 a week.
Yes people should ring to say they can't make apps.
I think for people routinely missing them something should be done, charging for them, threatening them with deregistering, making it so they are unable to access their surgery and apps online etc but sometimes people can miss apps for unexpected circumstances.
I am a regular as i have chronic health problems.
I have missed two apps in my life.
First i had recieved a call from a specialist the doc had referred me too and the call run over by 50 minutes.
The other because my dh had been in a car crash.
I didn't not go because i couldn't be arsed. My dh had had his car crashed into on purpose and i was hysterical.
I don't understand your 12 apps a day?
I Thought all patient slots were 10 minutes ( or 5 for emergencies at mine) so more than 12 apps in some surgeries?
I understand how annoying it is though, the Usual waiting time for my gp is 2-3 weeks. I can wait for up too two hours sometimes to see my gp. My gp however is a star ( which is why there is always such a wait).
However if i had to pay to go i couldn't afford it.
This would have a life threatening implications for me.

There's a certain level of service the NHS can afford to provide - compared to other countries it's not a high level, as it's cheap to provide, but to hear people who work in the NHS you would think that anyone wanting a higher level of service was asking for the moon. We're in Germany with additional Swiss insurance - DDs got sore throats 2 weeks ago, I had a same day appointment with children's specialist GP and they tested for and confirmed strep there and then. They had antibiotics in them 4 hours after I phones the doctor. Then they both got ill this weekend and we took them to the 24h emergency children's GP service in the biggest local hospital. They apologized when we had to wait 45 minutes to be seen . In the UK that'd be like asking for the moon, I know, but it's not! It's totally reasonable to want your sick kid to be seen and treated on the same day. Fine the NHS can't do that, but why do the staff, GPs, consultants, receptionists, always make you feel like you're being ungrateful when you ask for anything other than the most basic care, in 10 days' time when they finally have an appointment?

No it's not unreasonable, but if there's no appointments then there isn't much they can do?
I've had to go walk in and a&e before due to alarming symptoms as no gp appointments and no emergency apps either.
It's awful but they can't make apps up, my gp is repeatedly working through her lunch break and over the last app time because apps have run on.

Much better now my health centre has weekend appointments. Sunday mornings they always seem to be free. They are sometimes locus doctors but I don't mind, a fresh viewpoint often helps.
Unexplained pain is a problem in itself, not a psychosomatic one either!

Somehow the British people were convinced that the benefits system was propping up 'scrounges' rather than helping out the sick, disabled and those who had fallen on hard times. The benefits system is now being systemically dismantled.

Now the British public is being told that the problem with the Nhs is that it's being taken advantage of by the feckless, not that it's being deprived of funding or that the GP contract was an awful mistake.

It seems that once you convince the British that their neighbour might be getting more of something, they become perfectly happy to smash that thing, no matter how precious it is to them. You're a funny lot.