Quote from: Tones on Today at 07:44:46 AMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on Today at 07:24:39 AMQuote from: Tones on Today at 06:13:39 AMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on Today at 12:14:11 AMQuote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PMSo 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.Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PMSo 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.Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PMSo 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.
Just keep phoning, the empty surgery.
Pretty sad response, an individual pitting his experience via knowing the local receptionist and having a few pounds over the masses, poor pensioners ringing will just give up if they can't get through but what do you care.
Again you're using your own experience (as am I) different surgeries than have different methods.
Your beef is with your own surgery, claiming that the GP's are sitting about doing nowt. Well that's just bollox.
You sound like another public server basher. You pay taxes, it doesn't mean you get automatic service.
If you want a better service we've got to pay more taxes to get it.
But you keep telling me how lucky I am for knowing a receptionist and how lucky my wife had £100 quid available to see a private doctor.
I have never once said that, I said I go once a week and at differing times and the surgery is empty, I have no clue what they are doing, telephone triage, video call, house calls, private work, I don't know, my beef as you put it is not with my surgery but how unfair it is in general, you don't care as you can text your receptionist and jump the queue or pay 100 quid when your mate is on holidays or whatever. A 75 year old with COPD struggling and needing a course of steriods and an antibiotic has to ring up and if the poor crater can't get through they will give up, if they do get through and told there is no appointment and ring back, they'll give up, appointments should be able to be booked like pre-covid, oh yes Mrs Smith I could book you in tomorrow at 10am, it don't happen anymore, with that I bid you adieu.
Take that frustration out on your MP/MLA, whoever that may be.
As much as the Tories and their austerity is meant to do as exactly what MR2 and lots of others has done and drive people into the arms of private medicine I've no real confidence that Wes Streeting will reverse much of that when Labour get into power and that's the frightening thing.