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AIBU?

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To think someone shouldn’t be registered with a doctor half an hour from where they live

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User6007000 · 27/09/2019 20:12

A friend of mine is registered at the same gp as me and she lives half an hour a way from the gp. Aibu to think this shouldn’t be allowed? Where she lives is still the same health care trust. She said there is a law which allowed her to do this? I have always thought gp’s have catchment areas

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MrGsFancyNewVagina · 28/09/2019 23:00

No, but being a judgmental, mean spirited twat usually makes someone a bad friend.

London1996 · 28/09/2019 23:50

It's only an issue if the GP has to do home visits. What's the issue?

MagicMojito · 29/09/2019 00:55

Yep non of your business. In the nicest way, beak out!

Topseyt · 29/09/2019 01:14

You really are pretty stubborn and dim, aren't you? This is of no consequence to you at all.

Have you been saying any of this drivel to her? If you have then you are just proving yourself to be a dreadful busybody.

Countrylifeornot · 29/09/2019 05:03

Interesting first post OP. Bored are we?

katewhinesalot · 29/09/2019 09:23

I moved years ago and tried to register with the local one. It was full and they suggested the next local one which was a drive away. I didn't bother. I thought I may as well stay at my old one if I had to drive anyway.
That was twenty years ago. So not a new law.

LovePoppy · 01/10/2019 20:48

@User6007000 bitching about not getting drs appointments because you’re at the same surgery makes you a crap friend.

It’s likr you have no idea how they work.

GreytExpectations · 01/10/2019 21:40

The most vague op ever. Clearly not getting the response they hoped for

AdoreTheBeach · 02/10/2019 07:10

My GP is about 4 miles from me, same town. However, as there are a few schools around, between my house and gp, if I attempt to drive there near drop off/pick up time it takes over half an hour. Not really any other closer gp to register with.

readytoretire · 02/10/2019 07:37

YANBU. The problem with people accessing services that aren't the closest one to their home (schools, doctors, dentists) is that this means people who do live close to those services may have to travel further away because their local one is full or it takes too long to get an appt etc. It's been taking longer and longed to get an appt at my local doctors surgery so yes I'd be fairly annoyed if I found they were accepting lots of patients from other areas who could attend a more local gp. There are also some people who find it difficult to travel and so I don't think it's acceptable that a disabled person for example needs to travel to the next town to see a dentist because their local nhs dentist is full of patients from the town they end up having to travel too! It's not exactly great for the environment either. I think choice is a bit of an illusion - your choice is often someone else's inconvenience as we've seen with some people who can't get their child into the primary school they can see out of their window. If your local doctors, school or whatever is so crap you don't want to use it then that's what needs addressing.

SoupDragon · 02/10/2019 08:23

It's been taking longer and longed to get an appt at my local doctors surgery

The distance a person lives has absolutely no bearing on that whatsoever.

SaireyDog · 02/10/2019 08:28

Freedom of choice...✊

theretheirtheyrenotno · 02/10/2019 09:21

Of all the things to be irritated by this one definitely takes the 🍪 !

Don't be ridiculous about it having an effect on appointments, GPs have a capacity for appointments and it makes no difference if they are taken by people living close or afar!

theretheirtheyrenotno · 02/10/2019 09:23

Of all the things to be irritated by this one definitely takes the 🍪 !

Don't be ridiculous about it having an effect on appointments, GPs have a capacity for appointments and it makes no difference if they are taken by people living close or afar!

theretheirtheyrenotno · 02/10/2019 09:25

The problem with people accessing services that aren't the closest one to their home (schools, doctors, dentists) is that this means people who do live close to those services may have to travel further away because their local one is full or it takes too long to get an appt etc. It's been taking longer and longed to get an appt at my local doctors surgery so yes I'd be fairly annoyed if I found they were accepting lots of patients from other areas who could attend a more local gp.

I think you'll find the issue is the "compulsive" I must see the doctor every week for no good reason patients!

GP friend says he knows before he's opened his diary in the morning he knows 25% of the people who'll be needlessly on it.

HavelockVetinari · 02/10/2019 09:31

This is an odd thing to be disapproving about. GP practices decide how many patients they can accept, and have a maximum number. Your friend is perfectly entitled to see a GP she likes and trusts, and if that's the one a bit further away them that's fine - her decision is really none of your business.

Grumpyperson · 02/10/2019 18:33

It's not exactly great for the environment either. I think choice is a bit of an illusion - your choice is often someone else's inconvenience as we've seen with some people who can't get their child into the primary school they can see out of their window. If your local doctors, school or whatever is so crap you don't want to use it then that's what needs addressing

If you go to a GP where you work you have to be there anyway. I go to the GP once in a blue moon (other than smear tests) and I can walk, but if I drove it wouldn't be a big issue.

As for seeing a school out of your window that you can't get into, that's usually because it's a faith school which is a completely different issue. Luckily we don't ration healthcare based on what religion your parents are.

And in relation to not getting appointments, it would help a lot if people wouldn't make appointments that they then don't turn up for and are too lazy to cancel.

LemonPrism · 02/10/2019 18:36

Who cares? She is entitled to healthcare where she chooses.

Maybe the doctors there are rude or she has complained before and feels unwelcome? Maybe she has a trusted doctor or nurse at your practice?

Bore off you busy body

LemonPrism · 02/10/2019 18:40

They have a limit on how many patients they can take so they would still have accepted new patients who aren't her.

She is entitled to medical care an equal amount to you - if waits at her closest surgery are 6!weeks and yours 4 then she is entitled to make the choice that best benefits her health.

You ARE kind of a crap friend because you'd rather have a shorter wait time and your friend receive a worse level of care.

MitziK · 02/10/2019 18:42

You're being silly. At my old flat, it took half an hour to walk down the road, wait for the bus and then walk from the bus stop to the nearest GP - and this was in London, where if you have a car, it takes roughly 5 minutes (plus twenty trying to find a parking space).

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