AIBU to think that, if you work two/three days a week ...

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... you should try to arrange your doctors' appointments for the days you don't work, and not for 2 p.m. on a day that you do?

YABU - some things just won't wait. If I am developing a UTI then the sooner I can get antibiotics the better.

If at all possible yes, you should.

And if you do book an appointment on your NWD/on mat leave/unemployed/retired/etc you ought to try and avoid the 8-9.00 appointments or the 5-6pm ones. Loads of people don’t though. It’s incredibly selfish.

Depends on the circumstances.
I often have no choice no when I can go to see a GP so it is whenever it happens to be.
A friend of mine is a carer too and has a child with SN so going to the GP on her days off can actually be harder than when she is at work.

But if said person is working 3 days, has no other major responsibilities, it’s not an emergency and your surgeries are quite good where you are then, then yes I would expect that person to go and see the GP on the days off.
(Please note the long if xxx and if xxxx and if xxxx. Thee are plenty of reasons why one can’t chose when to see their GP)

It depends on why you work two/three days a week. It may be because you have other commitments on the alternate days that mean that it isn't possible for you do go to the doctors on those days.

You can't just pick and choose which day and time you want to see the doctor. At our surgery you are lucky to be able to get an appointment within a week, and if you want a particular GP then you are looking at a fortnight.
They tell you the appointment time, and their attitude is "if you need to see the doctor badly enough, then you will have to take time off work, like it or lump it".

In this day and age, where GPs and hospital appointmenst are golddust, you take what you are given.

With my surgery, you have to wait 3 -4 weeks for a non-urgent appointment, so you cant be picky!

I work 3 days a week.

I always try and arrange my appointments on my days off but like PP’s say, it’s not always possible.
My DR’s are super over stretched and you can only book on the day and usually the are gone 5 mins after they open.

So YABU in my opinion

.. NHS is very pushed I'm afraid. You get an appointment when you get an appointment.
My gtt appointment kept being booked for my work day and I had to take it very late. I got scolded and even told I couldn't take it. So it kept being put off from work

I teach in a school that had to get quite tough with dinner supervisors who work 1.5 hours a day and would book dental appointments etc in that time.

You certainly can not choose when your appointment is at my GP surgery. It's a 3 week wait and you take what's available.

I agree! I only work 3 days so schedule everything on my days off, even though it can be a nightmare to get an appointment lol

Generally yes but sometimes It's difficult if they only offer appointments on certain days. For example when I was pregnant my midwife was only available at my doctors on a Tuesday afternoon.

Depends. I work 3 days which I can’t swap due to childcare. I am currently pregnant and midwife is only at the clinic on one of the days I work, so I have to go during my working hours (and they have to let me!).

Why so interested op?

In an ideal world, yes, but the days of calling the doctor's and saying I'd like an appointment on x day at around x time are gone. If it's fairly urgent then nowadays you have to ring in the morning and hope you might get slotted in that day. Non urgent or routine appointments are often weeks in advance and unless you want to wait even longer you take what you're given. So, YABU.

Certain ‘clinics’ - e.g. smear test / cholesterol only run on certain days tbf

My doctor is fantastic and has seen me over the last five years. She only works Wednesday to Friday though, why would I book in with another doctor who doesn't know me just so I don't miss an hour of work?

I offer to show my payslip to anyone who has a dig-veiled or otherwise-about part time workers

As PPs have said it's very hard to get appointments these days. My gp surgery also has set days for certain things - ie immunisations on Monday, phlebotomy on tues, midwife Wednesday etc etc. I'm fairly sure my boss thought I was making this up - but what can you do!

And if you do book an appointment on your NWD/on mat leave/unemployed/retired/etc you ought to try and avoid the 8-9.00 appointments or the 5-6pm ones. Loads of people don’t though. It’s incredibly selfish.
DF annoyed me with this . DM told me that he’d harangued the GPs’ receptionist about not being able to get an early morning appt “so I can get going with my day”. While DF was still working in his mid-70s, it was more of a pastime than to earn a living; and as SE he was able to be pretty flexible with his time. Hardly the same thing as someone ytrying to raise a family on a low wage with rigid hrs and having to take appts unpaid/ as holiday ...

Mind you, it doesn’t help that while surgeries are frequently theoretically open from 8am or whenever , they can be oddly reluctant to actually give you an appt at this time...

I usually do, it's far less hassle.
But a couple of times a year an apt falls on a working day.
I've just made an apt with my GP and the next apt was mid April. I'll have to nip out of work for it.

Funnily enough, I have had to do this this week. It has been a nightmare to get a doctors appointment and it is the only time I can get one. My mental health is deteriorating and I suffer from PTSD. I am making up the time. Unfortunately sometimes circumstances require you take the only appointment available!

I work part time and try to book my appointments when I’m not at work, usually after 2 and before 3 when I pick the kids up. But booked my smear test a couple of weeks ago in the morning when I was ‘fresh’ 😂 so I was a little late for work.

I work mon to thur
My dentist works mon-wed
My kids ortho works mon and tue only
To get a gp appointment i must run the gauntlet of receptionist gatekeepers, a judgey gp on the phone, an appmt the far side of fuckery, kept waiting over an hour..... so try working around that before you make assumptions about others lives.