What is it like getting a Doctors appointment for you ?

[icowden]

Bloody brilliant from my GP. We have 4 practices in the same place - three of them in Walton Health Centre and the other over the road.
I was registered with Red for years but they got worse and worse and worse. Yellow had the same problem according to my in-laws. White was always terrible - it's a one man band from a GP who used to be part of Red.
I moved over the road to Fort House and have never looked back.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

As far as the NHS App is concerned

it sounds like the now ex health Minister was very insistent on hospital putting their documents and test results - and everything else
onto the systems that feed the NHS App

So at some point in the future all your appointments and test results and all other documents should be available to The People" via one App

of course "at some point in teh future" is a rather flexible concept of a date

 

[presta]

Our practice was put into special measures a few years ago, when it was one of the worst in the country. Checking the CQC site just now, it's still the worst in town.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

So at some point in the future all your appointments and test results and all other documents should be available to The People" via one App

Or more to the point, available to the highest bidders as s source of Government income (except the US who have Palantir ...).

 

[lazybloke]

My local GP practice have a 'Good' CQC rating but I've found them exception for over a quarter of a century. They usually offer me same-day appointments, which is so good I've never needed to use the Doctor@Hand service that my work healthcare scheme added 10 years ago.


To a certain extent, i think the quality of GP service depends on how you approach them. Being courteous to the receptionists is a good starting point, and if you want an urgent appointment you need to provide justification.

My parents and brother use the same good GP service but have very different perceptions of the service. Go figure.