Helmut Shown 10:50 Mon Jun 29
NHS lotttery
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Can anybody on here beat my experience of the NHS. A non emergency appointment - 5 weeks and 2 days and when I saw the doctor she said that I should have come in earlier.
My wife rang the same surgery on behalf of her mother the phone was answered 47 minutes after she first dialled.
I can remember seeing a billboard before the 2010 election opposite Blackwall station with Cameron's shiny face and the caption "I'll sort out the National Health Service" . Well he's certainly done that but not in the way that his gullible supporters were expecting.
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4:54 Mon Jun 29
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It appears that A&E is also taking up some patients who should be going straight to their GP or even taking medical advice online or via their local pharmacy.
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Rossal
4:50 Mon Jun 29
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stewie griffin 1:49 Mon Jun 29
Agreed
My Mum has worked in the NHS for 30+ years, the problem is in London there are too many areas where demand outweighs supply.
It gets abused by far too many who have not paid a penny into the system in their life.
I have no doubt that is the reason i am still waiting for an appointment for my physio a month after a referral.
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Dick Gozinia
4:43 Mon Jun 29
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3-4 days is the average wait at my quacks for a nonemergency appointment. The NHS is still fucking superb IMO
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Helmut Shown
3:35 Mon Jun 29
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Honest Hammer 2:06 Mon Jun 29
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This is not due to a mix up. My appointment was on the surgery website where they show the next available appointment. The situation is exactly the same today. As for the phone call they have just changed the phone equipment because people were automatically answered and put on hold. The problem with that system was that the call was dropped after 20 minutes waiting. The only thing they have changed is the time out. It was because of this I had to use the website.
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Honest Hammer
2:06 Mon Jun 29
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When me and my immediate family have needed the NHS it's been there and the staff have generally done an excellent job, my local doctors surgery until moving was great, really efficient and managed expectations well.
It still needs work, and more investment but the original post is a classic rant because of a mix up.
Don't tarnish the entire organisation because of one experience.
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On The Ball
2:03 Mon Jun 29
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Some surgeries only take bookings at certain times. I'd hazard a guess that the call was made during one of those times.
stewie griffin 1:49 Mon Jun 29
Pretty close to the truth. I work in NHS statistics and the stuff we see (frequent A&E visitors etc) is shocking. A recent visit to A&E was even more eye-opening.
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REALGSA
1:59 Mon Jun 29
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They closes so many A&E's down all other places are packed.
Need more investment in this sector
Something the arabs could pump their money into instead of football and prostitutes
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RH
1:52 Mon Jun 29
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stewie griffin 1:49 Mon Jun 29
Spot on
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stewie griffin
1:49 Mon Jun 29
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Spent most of the last week in an NHS hospital.
The NHS is fantastic, the people who work there are great, the only problem with it is the people that use it.
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El Scorchio
1:44 Mon Jun 29
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Depends doesn't it.
The NHS surgery I am registered with has great hours, quick to answer the phone and get speedy appointments. Really lucky. I appreciate some others are utter rubbish.
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Joke Whole
1:40 Mon Jun 29
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ONLY Big American Pharma can fix the NHS via TTIP, providing nobody (else) knows what is happening.
signed,
Big American Pharma,
(Secret TTIP Regional Implementation Faction East)
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Italian John
11:16 Mon Jun 29
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There's nothing wrong with the NHS, I read it in the Daily Mail.
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Fifth Column
11:03 Mon Jun 29
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To be fair Spandex he is posting from his hospice bed.
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Spandex Sidney
10:56 Mon Jun 29
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You're well enough to be posting an tirade on a football forum. Get over yourself.
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