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#1

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - Today at 11:50:08 PM

So plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.

#2

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 11:46:08 PM

If you can afford it you sound like the I'm OK f**k you, more can't afford than can, and as I alluded before I have yet to see anyone in a waiting room whilst collecting prescriptions, maybe we all need a mate on reception.

I said keep phoning or go to A&E


So just so I get right, you are saying they are doing nothing? Sitting in empty gp surgeries doing nowt?

I do work in a GP surgery 5 days a week, I can confirm it's flat out

#3

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - Today at 11:34:22 PM

If you can afford it you sound like the I'm OK f**k you, more can't afford than can, and as I alluded before I have yet to see anyone in a waiting room whilst collecting prescriptions, maybe we all need a mate on reception.

#4

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 11:30:15 PM

Imagine if you couldn't afford the 100 quid?

Then you keep calling or go to A&E

But it's not the doctors on the ground in local surgeries that are not seeing people, they are full.

It's like that show about covid the other week, was very good, protests outside hospitals people going inside hospitals and videoing the place saying it's empty!

NHS is crumbling, getting health insurance looks like your best bet if you can afford it.

#5

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - Today at 11:26:25 PM

Or just suck it up. Amazingly take dentistry get an appointment you get charged if you cancel if they cancel suck it up.

#6

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by markl121 - Today at 11:21:48 PM

recently had to use BUPA Private GP which I can get via my work. I had been trying to get a GP appointment for a non urgent thing, but again unless you call between 8.30 and 9 every morning for a time slot later on that day, then you don't really have an option. My surgery actually do offer an appointment a week in advance for mornings only. This is better than most but the nature of my job means that I have work booked 4-6 weeks in advance, I don't finish at the same time each day and can't really cancel it as its block booked appointments. Just a bit frustrating that you can't say ok tell me a date and time in a month from now and I can try and organise around it. You could of course use a days annual leave in the hope you can get through between 8.30 and 9 in the hope you can be seen that day.

#7

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - Today at 11:18:39 PM

The NHS in the 6 counties is underfunded, and it is not going to improve much. In the 26 counties it is an honest proposition, we'll charge you unless you are in the poorer half of the population. In the 6 counties the proposition is that everything is free, but we won't see you anytime soon. 

This is the most realistic post on this thread.

#8

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - Today at 11:08:53 PM

Imagine if you couldn't afford the 100 quid?

#9

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 11:06:33 PM

Bet if everyone had to pay you could get an appointment anytime anywhere!

Wife paid over £100 recently, couldn't be arsed phoning anymore and I was embarrassed asking the friend I had at doctors reception.

Was seen next day, had bloods taken antibiotic's prescribed

Had that illness recently that completely floored her, I was fed up looking after her, so money well spent

#10

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Armagh18 - Today at 10:52:35 PM

Not any lover of Tyrone, but it's very unfair a team having to play a big semi-final game just 6 days after a tight game. Def needs a 2 week breathing space between quarters and semi, plus a 2 week space to the qualifiers after the final for runners up

Absolutely. Scrap the group shite, 2 championships of 16 with a back door before the quarter finals or maybe just straight knockout be even better. Push the all ireland back to mid august.

When would the concerts happen though?

You're a quare man for the concerts!