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.

 

[steveindenmark]

I am in Denmark and I have no problem seeing a doctor at any time of the day and night. Hospital appoints are very quick.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

(Again more than 2 years ago but) One interesting exception to non-urgent appointments at my GP is if you phone re an MSK issue and 1st thing you say to receptionist is "Your decision but I don't think I need to see a GP as it's non-urgent MSK...". They have (or had) an NHS physio attend the practice once a week and too many people stupidly push wanting to see their GP so normally you get an appointment when physio next attends at a time of your choice, normally within a few days.

 

[postman]

It's a phone queue,and you start at 08-00 and wait,sometimes it is better to ring 09-30 and hope,but Mrs P came up with a good idea.Press a button at their request and they ring you back.She got a late afternoon app same day,i wonder if they keep a few back just for that.

 

[alicat]

It's terrible. My surgery insists on me using the triage system even though I can't because of my brain tumour. The last time the triage form was reviewed, I was told that I could self-refer for my problem. I said that I couldn't do that and the response was basically "Tough, we have 31,500 patients and we can't give them individual attention." I wasn't popular for responding that that meant that they had 31,500 patients that they weren't looking after.

I'm seriously thinking of changing to a smaller surgery because I have two important questions that I can't get answered.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Haven't got a clue on how to get a GP appointment at my practice.
When I needed them in the past, maybe once every 10 years, yes, years not months, they have been rude.
Last year I had a chest infection, so I went to a local pharmacy - that's what the NHS tells you to do for minor ailments these days - got a quick visit and antibiotics, like I was expecting.
There actually are a couple of health issues I need seen to, but I cannot be bothered, had them for years, guess I'm not going to die from them.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Hard to say as I haven’t needed one in a very long time. They were good for recent travel vaccinations though.