To feel this GP are being a bit unreasonable

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Ds 25 moved out to try living alone. He has quite bad mental health problems unfortunately. He has now moved back with me. The local GP haven’t been taking any patients since February and every time they are called they say another three to six months despite guidance stating it should have a clear end date when they are to accept patients again. There is a clause that they can accept immediate family members of patients already registered there. However they refuse to do so and say they are full despite having had the list closed for well over three months which means people must have either moved or sadly passed away in that time.

Are there other options? So if you can't go to the other one is there another even further? Is there a clinic or could you bring him to a hospital instead?( I know none of these are ideal)

No unfortunately not these only two in catchment the one with the closed list and the other awful one. He’s currently with his one in another town but they are looking to de register him.

Who did you speak to, OP? Receptionist, GP or PM?

The receptionist

So was your son previously registered at this same surgery, then moved away and registered elsewhere? Is he still registered at the other place and can he go there in the interim?

I asked before, OP, as if you can, I'd try for a meeting with the practice manager and ask for some flexibility based on a previous registrant returning from a temporary absence for whom you are a carer and mention any positive relationship with a named GP if still there unless your son was a disruptive patient. If you do meet, might be best not to raise the points about fairness and expecting a choice and other opinions that might not be received positively by someone who does not have to agree to your request.

Good luck.

It's a problem every where OP.

I left my home in the city because of domestic violence. I had to move 20 miles away to my family's home.

My mental health has been diabolical. My GP in the city won't see me any more as I don't live in their catchment area and I can't get in at any of the local doctors.

The only thing they could give me was the crisis teams number and I don't want my mental health to have to get to crisis point before I'm helped. Even then, crisis teams are struggling and I am loathe to contact them if they're going to take me away from my son.

I'm sorry about your son OP. It's unfortunately just a common matter these days.

@Wildtimes78889

No unfortunately not these only two in catchment the one with the closed list and the other awful one. He’s currently with his one in another town but they are looking to de register him.

Then he has to go to “the awful one” or he doesn’t have a GP surgery.

I’m curious as to what makes it so awful

Unfortunately you need to take it up with the commissioners of GP services - and get them to fund more GPs, not the GP. My GP practice has the incredible sum of 15,000 patients on their books and I wish they would close their list. They keep on taking more patients so of course the pressure for appointments is incredible. They have even given up answering the phone - everything by econsult and you wait 48hrs for a triage call back.

OP have you looked into online GPs? There is a small provision for NHS funded GPs I think Babylon and GP on demand. I know they’re in London but may be more widespread. And just to emphasise it is a free nhs funded service, not a private GP (which is of course another option)

See eg nhsgponline.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjwlYCHBhAQEiwA4K21m_5PL59o4UBWESBKe30IZZHbcnItTXMvPdynu4vnr3XrL2IhBvw59hoCuIMQAvD_BwE

Why not register him with "the awful one" and see what it's actually like? Remember they will have a lot of patients, but it will tend to be the ones that had bad experiences (and there are some of these at every surgery) that will be shouting the loudest.