GP surgeries are broken

[grumpyandfedup]

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.

It has to be annual leave, of which I have none

(Before anyone comes at me, I’m on my lunch, and I’m on hold with the GP!)

It has to be annual leave, of which I have none

(Before anyone comes at me, I’m on my lunch, and I’m on hold with the GP!)

Do your managers know you're wasting NHS time and money chatting on the internet?

If so, what do they have to say about it?

So we've established you're on lunch and have no annual leave left.

Why couldn’t you take sick leave, OP? You are so ill you are going to bed at 7pm every day. The NHS has a generous self certification policy

If you work for the nhs on a permanent contract you will get paid sick leave.

it won’t have to be annual leave.

You started posting at 10:40 and have responded to over 50 posts, all quoted and presumably read in that time. Even if it takes 2 minutes you have wasted the whole morning posting online.

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

Well fortunately for the rest of us, that's not your decision to make.

Thats simply untrue.

You’ve been posting on here all morning every few minutes.

At the very best that’s not working at full capacity in your NHS job. Why would you do that? That’s time clock theft!

You’re lying again.

I have taken probably 10-15 minutes out if my entire morning (including 5 minutes of a work sanctioned break and my lunch break).

They’ve moved it forwards 5 days. After telling me they’re fully booked this month. It’s such bollocks

Yes its not ideal but isn't too bad considering Christmas is two weeks away. I think Superdrug do private thyroid tests.

I’m not lying. The evidence is here on the thread.

I’ve shown you the evidence where you’ve gone from “50+ posts” to “two hours” which again isn’t true.

Perhaps they had a cancellation.

OP I'd advise you to be a bit less belligerent when you eventually see the GP, and to listen to what he says without giving her/him your own diagnosis the minute you walk through the door.

I never said 50+ plus posts or two hours.

I think you need to go back and re-read because that wasn’t me.

It does not need to be annual leave if it's for illness. You are just making excuses. There's a lot wrong with the NHS, but this ain't it.

I've just phoned my doctors surgery for a telephone appointment and been given one straight away for later this evening. And that isn't uncommon, although if I wanted a sit down appointment I'm sure it would take around a fortnight (or even more if I requested a specific doctor) So your experience is not universal.

I think the wait time is appropriate for the condition you mentioned (and I have autoimmune thyroid disease also and would expect to wait a few weeks for a consult UNLESS I was having a thyroid crisis, a 'thyroid storm' or was hyperthyroid and suspected I had become very hyper, in which case I'd go A&E) so if you're seriously ill, if you feel your TSH might be dangerously high or low. Go A&E.

For the iron, take vitamin C with all meals, buy iron rich foods, like liver and pate, dark chocolate, take a multivitamin that includes bioavailable methylated B complex and folate, copper, vitamin A and zinc - as these are co-factors of Iron - alongside a separate iron tablet in a gentler, more tolerable form like ferrous gluconate or ferrous bisglycinate.

@LemonTTyes you did.

For a GP appointment it does. You can’t just take sick because you need to call the gP for an ongoing issue - I’ve asked.

@LemonTT did. However I am @Lemonandlimefizzywater hth.

an apology would be nice.

For you having a go at me? Nah

No. For the lies you posted about me.

all the best with your appointment. I hope it goes well.

Ours is like that, except the e-consult doesn’t usually even get opened everyday and then they lie to about it. Neither myself or my DH have actually seen a GP there in years and get he got referred for a minor procedure without even seeing a GP. It’s crazy. For those saying it’s a busy season it’s literally like this all year round there.