Barnsley Hospital overwhelmed

Ffs!

 

Hospital A&Es will always risk being under pressure until GPs finally start face to face appointments again.
Quite why they aren’t is beyond me…..

 

It's easier to get into Fort Knox than it is a doctors up here.

 

Someone will still claim this is COVID related, without reading the article properly.

 

Sooner they see patients face to face the better diagnosing and prescribing over the phone is not good.

 

My colleague at work (and he's amongst a number of colleagues feeling the same effects) had his Covid jab 4 weeks ago. He's turned from a healthy 30+ young man into a total physical wreck. He looks like he's going to die. He's constantly shivering, his temp is through the roof, he has pins and needles in all his limbs. He's totally fk*cked. He's not alone. We've lost hundreds of work hours to people suffering from the effects of the Covid vaccine. We lost very few work hours to Covid-19 other than self isolation. There's only me in a company of 100+ employees who got it with any symptoms that would keep you off work.

Our project today, everyone in our department, was to get an appointment for my colleague. To ring and ring and ring until one of us got through to get an appointment for my colleague who is suffering so badly.

 

I feel for these heros, the last twice I have been was brilliant, that's my own experience. Took mi Mam whilst she was suffering from Alzheimer's, took a long time but they were also overwhelmed. It ended up with mi Mam sleeping peacefully in a bed.
She's hadn't done that for months. Well done Barnsley hospital

Mi Mam is now in an home temporealy & coming om soon

 

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/health/huddersfield-calderdale-ae-medics-real-20793899

Same here in Kirklees with record A&E numbers as GPs just are not seeing people face to face so you cannot blame people popping to hospital where they know they will be seen.

 

I needed an appointment a couple of months back. Only 3 weeks till they could fit me in.

What's the point. Ill suffer then instead.

But, when they want me to visit at their request (every 3 months) an appointment is available within 2 days.

I'm not buying GP's are over run, because its always empty when I do go. Without fail.

It's easy to say we have no appointments, off you ****. And it's someone else's (A & E) problem

 

I bet GPS secretly ******* love making the A&E workers working life worse, they can **** off back to their big houses while the nurses struggle on their underpaid wage. It is a totally tragic situation.

 

My village surgery is one of the best in Kirklees but during lockdown my mum had a couple of rashes (she's mid 70s) and her surgery asked her to email some photos of them to have a look at. She isn't at all tech savvy so it was daft to ask. I helped her do it thankfully they looked at them issued some cream and it cleared up. But the rashes could have been anything thankfully nothing more sinister but GP surgeries need to get back to how they have always been.

 

My mum had to do the same. Emailing pictures over potential recurrence of skin cancer

I struggle to understand how a static picture is helpful.

You only need to look at the glass test with meningitis for that to fail.

GP's might be overworked with the number of patients in their catchment area (Nother government failure) but they have more say over when people get booked in.

A&E Have zero say, they can't stop people walking in through the door.

 

Time to hit GPs in the pocket- less we forget they are not part of the NHS, time to stop paying them if they don’t hit face-to-face targets.

 

Just to add some balance to some of the ill informed tripe above. Im married to a GP and my experience of her work life is as follows.

Her workload has increased substantially over the last 18 months. She is contracted to work 24 hours per week but does around 35 usually. That’s quite a big difference, and she is required to make potentially life impacting decisions (sometimes complex) under extreme pressure.

she sees patients face to face. Due to the volume of patients requiring help there has been a shift towards telephone appointments because this is a more efficient way of dealing with the volume (in fact the only possible way)

she’s incredibly hard working and is completely worn out by the pressure of work, and I am sad to say, the attitude of a vocal minority of patients who choose to abuse our brilliant NHS and by and large the fantastic staff that work in it.

Our health service is completely f ucked. It is under resourced and probably for cynical reasons.

 

We are told that GP's do double the 35.

What you didn't pick up on was the point in the middle of my post about the catchment area.

I'd take 35 hours a week now

 

Which point ?

 

I wonder when we’re going to have the ****** to face up to the fact that the NHS isn’t fit for purpose. Run into the ground through a combination of years and years of underfunding allied to a culture of total mismanagement, absenteeism and waste. Absolutely fundamental change needed, but god knows what the answer is.

 

"GP's might be overworked with the number of patients in their catchment area (Nother government failure) but they have more say over when people get booked in."


Case in point.

In our village (Houghton), planning permission has been granted for 100 new houses (in a farmers field I might add)

So. School places, extra GP? Nah, doesnt happen.

But I stand by every word I said on my experience. My GP has surgeries in goldthorpe, thurnscoe and great Houghton. Good luck trying to get in (except at their request). All 3 are always empty when you visit.