To expect changing facilities?

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Took DS for second set of vaccinations at our GP surgery - have only ever visited once before (for his first vaccinations) as we’re new to the area.
Sitting waiting for the nurse DS has a lovely nappy explosion...you know the kind - down the leg, up the back 😅😅 so I ask at reception where the baby changing facilities are...and the lady looked at me like I had 3 heads 😳 told me I could change him on the ladies bathroom floor. I do understand that part of having a baby is mastering the nappy change standing up/upside down/one handed 🤣 and I do carry a gold out mat etc so I can change him wherever - but is it unreasonable to expect a family doctors surgery to have some kind of changing facility? 🤔🤔 the more I think about it the more it annoys me that they don’t!

I guess it depends on if there is space in the surgery to add it in without loosing something else.

That’s poor - ours at least had a work surface at the right height in the loo so you could manage there - and that was 20 years ago!

It is a bit shit but I suppose if there isn't the space, they can't expand the walls.

Completely get the space issue...haven’t seen the gents loos so can’t comment on that, but certainly in the ladies there’s more than enough space for a fixed unit or even one of the fold down ones on the wall 🤷🏻‍♀️ I guess I just expected places like that would have some kind of facility 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe give some constructive feedback to the practice manager then?

Is it the case they don't have any at all or that they've closed them "due to covid"? Do they have accessible toilets for disabled people?

@user113424742258631134 I did give feedback but she had an “it’s never been raised as an issue before” attitude 🤷🏻‍♀️ yes they do have an accessible toilet for disabled people. One ladies, one gents and one disabled - all just basic facilities in each. I do appreciate that it’s not a huge surgery...I just wasn’t sure if it was the norm not to have something like that in that setting 😊

I suppose that explosions are the only time they are necessary as most people are only there for a very short time.

They need actual toilets as patients will have to collect urine samples.