My doctor was late to my appointment because he had been at the local country hotel full of asylum seekers...

[doodiethewonderdog]

When was the last time you had a home visit? Is this a way of managing the " problem" by them taking clinics there? Is it a way of hiding this issue? I understood they did not have access to the NHS yet I see massive bags of medicine labelled for this hotel too at the dispensary. We wait about 6-7 weeks for a routine appointment.

Perhaps they’re getting vaccinations. TB is on the rise ans one reason is immigration. It’s a good thing if they intercept it at source before they pass it onto the general population. As to what should happen ? There should be strict laws regarding immigrants. This includes entering the country legally.

This.

His nhs patients should not have to wait because of some lucrative contract for extra work on the side.

Report him op to primary care commissioning or whatever their current name is.

What is it that you can’t get that an asylum seeker can? Genuine question.

Look what is this routine I appointment that this poster has? Her being told six or seven weeks means that clinically it’s not very important

When will they have compassion for the citizens of this country?

Aye, right, they're living the dream like old school retired colonels in a country hotel, with NHS services on tap and gourmet food 24/7. Sure they are.

The thing is you are making all sorts of ill informed judgements and asking people to contribute equally ill informed judgements and opinions. There is no proper debate or discussion.

GPs are generally and almost completely not NHS doctors. They own or work for independent organisations who are free to take on contracts to provide services. They can for example be engaged by the home office and or the NHs to provide healthcare to people detained or housed in group settings. They are still obligated to fulfil their NHS contract but may engage other people to do that.

There is usually a public health imperative to screen and vaccinate people who enter the country and live in group settings. It can be easier to do that as an outreach service than use GP practice capacity to do it.

It's not your country. It's just the country you happened to have been born in.

Thank your god, or your lucky stars, or whatever you believe in that you weren't born in a country which is so dangerous or inhospitable that leaving is the best option.

We haven't had a asylum seeker bashing thread for a while.

Would you prefer the people had been seen at the practice?

I'm guessing he did so because our practice has a high % of elderly patients and covers a semi rural area. There has been various problems with the practice - waiting lists, appointments , issue of meds - and they have recently closed a smaller service they had in the next village. This has been highlighted in local social media.

I work on tbe London Tube. When I'm not at work and just travelling to visit family, should I not help people who may be lost or confused by the network?

If someone falls ill on the tube should an off-duty HCP not offer assistance?

If a police officer sees a robbery should s/he not report it?

I don't get your logic. 🤷🏻‍♀️

But what’s the point raising it on here? What’s that going to achieve?

Btw has your health actually suffered as a result of this OP or are you just annoyed at your relative lack of importance? Because that is what it looks like to me

Yes lovely no one else disputes asylum deserve jabs and health care. The problem is this nhs df seems to have double booked himself. He shouldn't be late for his actual job because he's raking it in on the side.

Things like healthcare, quick appointments, no waiting lists for surgery, cancer care etc.

schools - one of my friends couldn’t get her child into the school her eldest was in because there was already 32 kids enrolled (or whatever the number was). Then when September started they had been told to increase the amount of kids to whatever to allow some asylum seekers. Its not really fair that they wouldn’t allow her child in as an extra but several others were ok.

Theres more but I haven’t got time to reply.

Home visits? So much more efficient to do all of them at once.

I’m so glad that this group of people got appropriate health care.

What do you think should happen about asylum
seekers with health issues? Would you prefer that they waited in the same waiting room with you? I suspect that GPs don’t do that because of the potential for things to kick off and they don’t want to have to cancel whole days of appointments because a fight happens.

I don’t see a problem with NHS GPs having clinics at hotels and seeing lots of people in one go. (Like in Call The Midwife) Whatever your opinion on immigration, the journey will involve reasons why contagious diseases could spread- do you want outbreaks of illnesses in your local area which could be controlled with modern medicine like antibiotics and immunizations? Healthcare professionals make an oath to do no harm and help people and helping these men is included in that oath. It’s the same as people in person getting healthcare- access to healthcare is a right in a supposedly developed country.

Sp people are aware and can raise it with their MPs if needed.

Healthcare for asylum seekers should not be at the detriment of everyone else, obviously.

Happy to read this. I'm glad whenever an asylum seeker gets needed care.

I'm actually learning some things on here eg the doctors' contracts. Isn't that the point of discussion as opposed to just flinging insults?

Stop being reasonable and seeing the very obvious time benefit of this! That’s not the narrative the OP wants.

Im not sure that she would want you wishing them well either.

Total waste of time. There is no requirement in a GP contract for a named individual to be available during core hours. Not even the contract holder.

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