Booked emergency hospital appointment

[dchange]

I booked a hospital appointment in the morning for 1pm (only slot). This clashed with a meeting that lasted 10 minutes. I told my boss immediately I won't be able to join. I then speak with him latter and goes on to say how weird it is that I had a hospital appointment last minute and he would like to get details of my hospital.

In last 2 years I have taken 1 sick day.

Is this crazy or am I going crazy!

GP

I have had an emergency same day hospital appointment, so they do exist.

But in this case. OP lied and got caught out.

It’s very weird to say you’ve a hospital appointment when you’re going to the GP.

I do get emergency hospital appointments but I could show proof to work if required. Because they’re at the hospital not the GP.

For clarity. People keep saying I lied. I did not lie. I did got for hospital appointment. However, from what I gather I should have said GP appointment. All clear

Are you in the UK and is English your first language ?

You've spent 20 years telling people you have hospital appointments when you don't? Ok.

Is that because you recognise a hospital appointment is for more serious, specialist care and therefore people are less likely to challenge you?

Sooner or later someone was going to challenge you.

I'm not going to comment on your latest invented scenario because you're setting up more strawmen, which is apparently your style.

You did lie.

You didn’t have a hospital appointment. You went to see your GP.

Emergency hospital appointment in England would mean you were seeing a private doctor. Emergency hospital visit would be going to A&E

Think you just jumped the shark, mate.

I am in the UK. Moved here from another country in my 20's and English is my first language.

No, you went to see a GP. They just happened to be situated in a hospital building.
If I see our out of hours GP it’s situated near A&E but I would never say I was going A&E.
You may not deliberately have lied but you misled your boss so I can see why he thought you weren’t being honest

I had to have an emergency neurology appointment following a brain scan on the Monday. I text my boss on the Tuesday to say it would be the Wednesday (was working offsite) and could I adjust my lunch break.

He didn't read it until the Wednesday morning, kicked off merry hell and I was told to cancel the appointment or face consequences. Thankfully a director stepped in a pointed out that our contracts state reasonable time off for sick leave (with no required period of notification other than as early as possible, which is what I had followed).

Naturally it was shit news, got back to the office to a barage of "well clearly it couldn't be that important if you are there and back within an hour". Id take ubers both ways to minimise the impact.

Sorry you too are going through this.

People keep saying I lied. I did not lie. I did got for hospital appointment.

By your own admission no you didn't. You went to a GP appointment which is based within the same building as the hospital.

@LionPhish thanks for understanding. Sorry to hear about your own experience.

It's perfectly reasonable to have a hospital appointment done via GP - lots of emergency GP appointments are based in hospitals (out of hours, same day etc)

If your appointment is in a hospital, you may well be able to get an attendance certificate (they may have changed name) which will be stamped by the reception staff.

And yes - your appointment is with a GP, despite being inside a hospital.

An emergency GP appt is still a GP appt. not a hospital appt.

@dchange no worries, and I hope whatever it is isn't cause for concern.

I have a friend who works as a GP in a hospital - you phone the hospital to get an appointment (this is Centralish London) - you get a time, you go in and its just like a normal GP clinic only for overflow patients from neighbouring surgeries.

I work in a hospital OP. Just ask at your appointment and the reception will be able to provide a letter for you to give your employer.

You can have a GP appointment at the hospital with certain practitioners. You can also absolutely have same day and emergency hospital appointments in out patient departments!! Lots of people secure cancellation appointments this way. These obviously don't get sent a letter because it's booked over the phone at short notice.

Hospital appointments cover a range of specialities - physio, SLT, GPs, dietician, they are all still "hospital appointments" if at a a hospital.

A hospital appointment is different to gp.

No a GP appt is different to a hospital appt. a hospital appt is with a specialist. GP is general practice

I think the op has been using “hospital” to make her appts sound more serious so that she wouldn’t be asked to organise them at more convenient times for work (we are asked to do this for Gp Appts but there’s an understanding that hospital appointments you take what you’re given)

For clarity, I was not using the word hospital to make my appointment feel serious.

@dchange

I have no issues showing evidence, it's just the absurdity of the request. He has not asked other people for letters who have fallen sick more often, but he seems to always have something against me.

Ok, will show the evidence

Probably because they've supplied them in advance.