'Two birds with one stone'...

Didn't you say earlier in this thread that the doctor asked you to come in to the surgery for a face to face appointment?

 

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In a tiny grave in a churchyard cemetery rests a 4 year old boy called Frankie. He died in 1929. Today the cause of death would probably be recorded as Peritonitis and Sepsis brought on by a ruptured appendix.
Back in 1929 there was no 999. There was no 111. If you needed a doctor it cost a shilling just to see them before any treatment. And some families just did not have a shilling. There was no Internet. So as Frankie carried on saying his stomach hurt and vomiting, his Mammy and Dad thought he'd just got a bad stomach ache. Probably from eating something out of a bin because he was hungry. And they hadn't got a shilling to gamble on a stomach ache. And by the time they realised it was something serious, it was too late. Antibiotics were only a year old, and that was medicine that would have to be paid for. Along with the Doctors fee. And the treatment. And the morphine that they no doubt gave to Frankie as his little body was torn to bits by the pain. And so he died. Like so many others. For want of a shilling. If he was still alive , my Great Uncle Frankie would be 98 this year.

The NHS is not broken. It is overwhelmed, and under siege, underfunded, under-resourced, and under-staffed. But the idea that Nye Bevan brought into reality in 1948 is still very much in one piece. Universal health care for everyone, regardless of whether you have a million shillings or none. Because the alternative is privatisation. The same people that are allowing the energy companies to hold the country to ransom, are the same ones that will be selling your health to the highest bidder. They don't care, they can all afford and probably already have private health care.

We need another tide that raises all boats. And we need it now. For the sake of Frankie and all the others gone and all the ones to come, be that tide.

Save the NHS

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Yes but wife was bedridden

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-investigation-of-the-nhs-in-england

This might answer some questions to a few on here and various other posts hammering GPs

 

Nice bump.

Good to read some more stunning work from Ringo - the MVP of the BBS in recent months.

 

I gave ChatGPT the document and asked it:

It summarised it as follows:

 

Chat GPT is amazing for this isn’t it. Blows my mind.

pretty accurate summary

 

Yeah, give it a chunk text and ask it questions, or ask it to rewrite things and it's really, really good. Getting it to write complex Excel formulas is also handy. HTML etc..

Not so reliable on asking it questions on issues of fact. Always double check

Edit: Getting it to write emails is also a favourite of mine #lazy

 

Yes exactly. It does start lying to you sometimes !!!

 

My appendix burst in the year 2000. It started playing up when I was in hospital directly following spinal surgery. My temperature began to spike, but they sent me home anyway. A couple of days later it burst. I went to the GP and he diagnosed gastroenteritis. I went home and began dying. After a couple of weeks I went to the hospital and was in there months. The GP who I'd seen lied to staff and claimed he'd taken my temperature when I'd seen him. He hadn't. He also said the practice had now changed their boundaries for who could be on their books and removed me. When I'd just entered hospital almost certainly about to die. I had damaged my back when I was 17, by the time I got the operation I could hardly walk and I'd lost my job, my house and my life. **** GPs.

 

It scares the **** out of me! Probably watched too much Westworld.

 

100% people should be charged a fee for missed appointments and that money be used to improve services. Even £10 would act as some incentive to actually honour the appointment.

Any other walk of life, for instance a driving instructor would probably charge you the full lesson fee if you just didn't turn up. It should be no different for GP or hospital appointments.

 

The problem is that it’s probably 5% of the population that use 95% of the system and they’re often the most disadvantaged and less well off sections of society, therefore I doubt that would be possible to enforce effectively


Some of the patient behaviour towards NHS is scandalous and so I totally agree with the rationale I just don’t think it would work in practice.

there’s also huge amounts of wastage in the system which needs addressing

 

The Mrs was in the Doctors waiting room the other day when an old guy comes in.

Man "I need to make an appointment for my vaccination. Its overdue"
Receptionist "Ok. What's your name? Oh. I see you had an appointment last week that you didn't attend?"
Man "Yes. I couldn't make it and I can never get through on the phones so I didn't bother cancelling"

 

Keir Starmer:

Telling comment. Apparently the only people available to tax working people?

 

Agree to a point but with illness/diseases/health issues generally there are sometimes mitigating circumstances. Maybe GPs log appointments missed and after, say, three missed ones youre on a warning that the next will cost a tenner?

 

A lot of the Darzi report into the NHS is critical of the Tories for underfunding it apparently (I've not read it, just the summaries) yet what Starmer seems to be implying is that there'll be no major funding of the NHS in spite of the report. Looks like the reform he's suggesting will be tantamount to efficiency savings and reallocation of existing resources. Not good enough. I'm with the greens on this. If Starmer introduces more privatisation cos its convenient and an easy option I'm done with Labour.

 

You obviously know a lot of GPs. I expect you are on the golf course with them every day when they should be seeing patients from 9 to 5 and after that trying to catch up with the paper work and arranging appointments with consultants and specialists and not getting home until after 8pm every night.

lazy sods.

 

Sorry to hear that Jay. I always think if unsure, (although they think they are sure which is the biggest problem. It must be one of the hardest jobs in the world when in that position) better to be safe than sorry. I'll not go into the case as it will bring back memories I'd not like to go into for one or two. Misdiagnosis on more than one occasion cost a young relative of mine his life.