Are NHS GPs like this?
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Mme VK needed a repeat prescription for Levothyrox, so she phoned up Tuesday to book an appointment and got one for today, Thursday, at 11 am. She has to go to Huelgoat, 20 minutes away, because her mรฉdecin traitant has moved from Carhaix.
When she arrived, the waiting room was full and she heard that he’d been late in starting. She phoned me on my lunch break at 12.15 pm to say that the person with the 9.30 am appointment had only just gone in to see the doctor!
Mme VK finally left the surgery at 2.40 pm, after her appointment, and the waiting room was still full. She even heard that sometimes the doctor doesn’t finish until after midnight.
I know in these times of the dรฉsert mรฉdicale we should be grateful to have a doctor reasonably close, but it’s frustrating to have to take a whole day off just to go to see him.
To answer the question-‘No’.
Actually you probably would not get an appointment for weeks in the NHS
We must be very lucky, two small communes within a few km’s and we have enough doctors and never have to wait longer than next day (often same day) and due to booking times, barely anyone else waiting within your 15 minute time slot. I guessย like the UK, it’s down to the post code lottery.
We don’t have a problem where we live in the UK with getting an appointment within the same week, but I know elsewhere in the UK it can be. We had a doctor in France, he was very good, but my god you had a long wait once in the surgery before being called in, so much so that we changed our doctor and surgery.
Same day appointment-no problem; depends where you live.
Moi, are you referring to France or the UK?
Actually you probably would not get an appointment for weeks in the NHS
You base this statement on what facts?
Visiting sister from Hereford ย can wait three weeks for non urgent appointment.
three days for a phone consultation.
as for here …our gp will write a new prescription without seeing you..existing treatment…our local chemist always gives you the medicine if the prescription is out of date…visit gp ASAP for new one.
waiting for all that time is bad such a frustration.
here appointment system works well..seeing own gp can mean a wait…urgent visit always same day with another doctor.
saturday is bad…no appointment..just waiting…so don’t be ill Saturday!
Tuesday night, midnight, a phone call from my dad next door, my mum is bleeding a lot from her nose (when I say a lot, I mean a lot). One o’clock after the emergency came and try their best to stop her bleeding, we are in the emergency in Redon. After 3 hours and a half, they managed to calm down the bleeding, helped by a specialist ORL on the phone in Rennes. She then left by ambulance to Rennes, in CHU Pontchaillou. She’s recovering slowly, with two balloon keeping pressure in her nose. I’m in total trust with them, they do what is possible.
She did the same a month and a half ago, in Paris suburb. She only spent few hours in the emergency and been sent home at 7 am.
I’m starting to have severe doubt about the aspirin she has to take on a daily basis, she’s 82.
Sorry Babeth…they will look at her medicines in hospital…they stopped my aspirin. …..I had taken for 15 years.
keep fingers crossed all improves…
Babeth, is the Aspirin prescribed by her GP?
Yes, it is Tigre.
Maybe her GP can review this medication, it depends how beneficial it is for a medical problem she may have, is it just a low dose she takes? Hope it gets sorted, not a pleasant experience for her.
Recent medical trials have indicated that low-dose aspirin therapy carries a higher risk of internal bleeding for elderly people.
Moi, are you referring to France or the UK?
UK. And have found same day appointments in France by using internet.
I always remember my UK GP having a bit of a go at me quite a few years ago when he found out I was taking a 75mg Aspirin daily ( low dose), without it being prescribed, back then there was a lot of pro’s being banded about regarding the health benefits to do so, for example it helped prevent bowel cancer and thrombosis but, it’s obviously not good for everyone.
Been a big thing recently in the press about health professional shortage’s, GP recruitment being part of the problem. Its problematic throughout western Europe and most of the world in fact, its certainly not a French thing.
The population is growing and ageing and less and less people every year choose to train as medical professionals. But then, if you think France is bad, read up on Romania, a country where they have lost thousands and thousands of medical professionals.
We came home to the UK on Monday, wife needed to see the GP so rang at 8 Tuesday morning. Saw the doc at 9.30 that day. He suggested seeing physio, seen by them 8.45 Wednesday.
I know some areas in the UK are badly served, but here in Devon it is an excellent service.
The name “Devon” may tell you the reason perhaps. Here in France I have no doubt that certain areas, like coastal for example, will often mean an advantage for patients wanting a GP without too many hassles, as many Doctors would prefer to live in a nice area, not always true of course but the Doctors we have spoken to here love living in the area, as I expect many are in their own practices.
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