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GP surgeries are broken

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grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 10:40

Put in an e consult to my GPs surgery this morning for suspected anaemia or hypothyroidism. Okay not life threatening but unpleasant to live with and impacting my mental health and day to day life.

I get a text three hours later to say this isn’t urgent and I’m on a list to be called NEXT YEAR! The date isn’t certain and can be subject to change, but I should expect a call in the week commencing 5th January.

In the meantime my life will get worse, I’ll feel worse and I can’t get any help. Yet an immigrant arriving on a boat has onsite GPs there ready and waiting at all hours of the day.

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grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 11:51

mbosnz · 12/12/2025 11:50

Well, OP, it's good that you have decided that you can prioritising taking an hour out of your busy life for the sake of your health and make a phone call to give the surgery more information that might mean they reassess the urgency of your plight. However, no matter how bad you are feeling, it is absolutely no secret that the NHS is currently overwhelmed with flu, and it may be that despite your tale of woe the current assessment of where you should be in the priority queue should stand.

Do remember that the NHS would be even more broken and on its knees without immigrant labour right now, won't you? From the cleaners and orderlies, right up to the consultants.

I work in the NHS. I still don’t think flu is a reason to disregard other patients.

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Agrumpyknitter · 12/12/2025 11:53

can you ask in the econsult to have your bloods done, thyroid, ferritin etc in the meantime so that when you do meet your GP it’s with some background info. Blood tests can usually be booked online and available at the GP or local hospital too.

I don’t know if you are aware but the flu this year is hitting the NHS hard and that might account for the lack of appointments you have been given, if staff are off too.

Redpeach · 12/12/2025 11:53

My local gp surgery is not broken! Its very responsive

Agrumpyknitter · 12/12/2025 11:54

Redpeach · 12/12/2025 11:53

My local gp surgery is not broken! Its very responsive

Same and my local hospital trust.

mbosnz · 12/12/2025 11:54

If you work in the NHS, surely you understand the subtle difference between 'disregarding', and 'triaging'?

ilovesooty · 12/12/2025 11:56

myhaggisblewup · 12/12/2025 11:44

So sort out the aging problem and everything will be hunky dory the country will prosper, wars will end, and the Pope will be rejoicing the new coming. FFS.
Are you offering up the over 55 /65's in your family first to set an example or does it just apply to everyone elses relatives and loved ones ?
You will probably live to at least those ages, are YOU prepared to step aside for the younger generation?
Memento mori

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I said it might just have some relevance, and that immigration issues weren't the whole story.

Your post is unbalanced, emotive hyperbole.

And FYI I'm over 65 myself.

ReduceAnything · 12/12/2025 11:57

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You sound tired. Was it all the big words you had to read? Maybe you need a little nap.

ReduceAnything · 12/12/2025 11:58

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 11:51

I work in the NHS. I still don’t think flu is a reason to disregard other patients.

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Would you share your views on this with your immigrant NHS colleagues?

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grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 11:58

Agrumpyknitter · 12/12/2025 11:53

can you ask in the econsult to have your bloods done, thyroid, ferritin etc in the meantime so that when you do meet your GP it’s with some background info. Blood tests can usually be booked online and available at the GP or local hospital too.

I don’t know if you are aware but the flu this year is hitting the NHS hard and that might account for the lack of appointments you have been given, if staff are off too.

im going to call on my lunch break and ask for bloods in the meantime.

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RealReginaPhalange · 12/12/2025 12:00

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 11:16

Not at this surgery. They don’t seem to give a shit about anyone down there

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have you tried changing gp then if its that bad?

i also have no such issues with gp surgery like you described here

Icanthinkformyselfthanks · 12/12/2025 12:03

Thatcannotberight · 12/12/2025 11:31

OP , can you afford private blood tests? Super drug do them for under £100, other places too. NHS will only test TSH and free T4, which doesn't give the full picture. Private will test t3 and antibodies. I'd start there. You can find this information on line.

@Thatcannotberight , my GP tests my T4 and T3.

LemonTT · 12/12/2025 12:03

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 11:38

Okay so are people not allowed to seek medical care in December? Is this a rule somewhere?

im going to phone back on my lunch break and insist im seen sooner.

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Well you have now been posting and reading and replying on social media for an hour so could have easily made the call by now.

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grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 12:05

LemonTT · 12/12/2025 12:03

Well you have now been posting and reading and replying on social media for an hour so could have easily made the call by now.

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Sitting and quietly posting a message is different to taking a personal call!

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grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 12:05

RealReginaPhalange · 12/12/2025 12:00

have you tried changing gp then if its that bad?

i also have no such issues with gp surgery like you described here

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There’s only one in my town.

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Mildorado · 12/12/2025 12:06

mbosnz · 12/12/2025 11:54

If you work in the NHS, surely you understand the subtle difference between 'disregarding', and 'triaging'?

Quite. Also, someone working in the NHS and claiming that GPs are just waiting to sort out migrants?

Lemonandlimefizzywater · 12/12/2025 12:06

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 12:05

Sitting and quietly posting a message is different to taking a personal call!

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I wouldn’t have thought you should be messaging on here whilst at work in the NHS ?

TY78910 · 12/12/2025 12:07

Lemonandlimefizzywater · 12/12/2025 12:06

I wouldn’t have thought you should be messaging on here whilst at work in the NHS ?

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No you have to remember something - it’s the immigrants that are the issue. Not the white UK folk that commit timecard fraud by getting paid for not working!

Rizzz · 12/12/2025 12:09

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 11:51

I work in the NHS. I still don’t think flu is a reason to disregard other patients.

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And they allow you to sit around chatting on Mumsnet for hours instead of working?

I really don't think immigration is the problem here...

JamesClyman · 12/12/2025 12:09

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 10:45

Non urgent = non life threatening. There’s no other way to get through to them, unless you have an hour of your life free to sit on a call, which I don’t because I have a job.

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If you are well enough to do your job, it's not that urgent.
YABU.

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grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 12:10

JamesClyman · 12/12/2025 12:09

If you are well enough to do your job, it's not that urgent.
YABU.

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Yes because going to work then getting straight in bed is totally fine

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Lemonandlimefizzywater · 12/12/2025 12:11

I’d love to have time in my working day to sit on mumsnet.

the fact that the op can tells me something about the state of the NHS ….

Rizzz · 12/12/2025 12:12

Lemonandlimefizzywater · 12/12/2025 12:11

I’d love to have time in my working day to sit on mumsnet.

the fact that the op can tells me something about the state of the NHS ….

And yet she didn't have time to sit on hold to the GP surgery for the appointment she's desperate for 🤷‍♂️

Mildorado · 12/12/2025 12:13

Lemonandlimefizzywater · 12/12/2025 12:11

I’d love to have time in my working day to sit on mumsnet.

the fact that the op can tells me something about the state of the NHS ….

Imagine! When I'm at work I can only check my phone once a day! All very strange.

Mildorado · 12/12/2025 12:14

grumpyandfedup · 12/12/2025 12:10

Yes because going to work then getting straight in bed is totally fine

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You work for the NHS, in what capacity?

Cornishwafer · 12/12/2025 12:14

OP, you can get a thyroid test from superdrug...even if the results are positive the GP will want your bloods done 'properly' but you sound a bit panicky (maybe through tiredness) and possibly having some kind of explanation now rather than later would help a bit.