Anyone like to open the odds on these ever happening?
Feels like we’re back into the pattern of Sturgeon-esque announcements, which start with a standing ovation at party conference, then get quietly dropped within a couple of years because SNP government is OK at tweaking existing things, but shite at delivering anything new.
Congratulations to the Central Belt on their new walk in GP Surgeries, SOL the rest of us.
“How will he do this?”
Anyone explain how reform will fund their mega immigration bill?
How labour will unfuck themselves?
How the tories will survive winter?
Pie in the sky shite. And these are the fantasists we would trust with independence?
The comment sections for all political posts here just end up the same now regardless of the party being discussed.
Why wait until 2026?
They’re already in government. They could literally implement this now. It would almost certainly have enough support from other parties to pass. Greens in particular advocate for something like this, don’t they?
And given how difficult it is to get a GP appointment in many parts of Scotland right now, its something that is desperately needed.
Hands up: who thinks this will happen beyond a handful of token clinics in the central belt?
They should have swiveled iPad type screens where you can enter a VOLUNTARY “tip” for the NHS at the end. My friend who is a doctor suggested this to me. He said people that come in carrying a 4-6quid take away coffee is common. They can afford the overpriced coffee but they don’t have to pay anything for their visit. Oh and they sometimes leave the dirty cup too.
He announces this in Aberdeen, and five miles away at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary they are in a massive cash crunch
For those with short memories, this was talked about twenty years ago in response to the Kerr Report. It didn’t really go anywhere then.
In Scotland, they developed minor injuries units – then cut them back to the bone. In England, there were genuine walk-in clinics but it was later decided that they weren’t particularly cost-effective and were underutilised.
This, sadly, smacks of policy made on the hoof. I’ll be interested to see what the Royal Colleges make of it – because I’m pretty cynical about it all.
I went to a walk in GP centre in the centre of Birmingham a number of years ago, with a would which had got infected.
It was in the basement of a Boots in one of the major shopping centres.
I had to pay for the prescription of course, but the service was very useful and incredibly convenient.
I’m bewildered by the negative comments about this. Just a mere 30 years ago I was able to walk in to my G.P. surgery and wait to be seen. It’s not some impossible task to setup again.
It’s a great idea and sorely needed but… we’ll need a lot of new GPs and I don’t know how that happens.
The government is bankrupt, billionaires own everything… we’re fucked regardless of vote.
“I’m a gammon and won’t listen to a fucking word because I’m a bigot! Caravans eh! Men can’t be lezzers! Get the brown folk out! Vote Reform!”
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Who’s staffing these?
Anyone like to open the odds on these ever happening?
Feels like we’re back into the pattern of Sturgeon-esque announcements, which start with a standing ovation at party conference, then get quietly dropped within a couple of years because SNP government is OK at tweaking existing things, but shite at delivering anything new.
Congratulations to the Central Belt on their new walk in GP Surgeries, SOL the rest of us.
“How will he do this?”
Anyone explain how reform will fund their mega immigration bill?
How labour will unfuck themselves?
How the tories will survive winter?
Pie in the sky shite. And these are the fantasists we would trust with independence?
The comment sections for all political posts here just end up the same now regardless of the party being discussed.
Why wait until 2026?
They’re already in government. They could literally implement this now. It would almost certainly have enough support from other parties to pass. Greens in particular advocate for something like this, don’t they?
And given how difficult it is to get a GP appointment in many parts of Scotland right now, its something that is desperately needed.
Hands up: who thinks this will happen beyond a handful of token clinics in the central belt?
They should have swiveled iPad type screens where you can enter a VOLUNTARY “tip” for the NHS at the end. My friend who is a doctor suggested this to me. He said people that come in carrying a 4-6quid take away coffee is common. They can afford the overpriced coffee but they don’t have to pay anything for their visit. Oh and they sometimes leave the dirty cup too.
He announces this in Aberdeen, and five miles away at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary they are in a massive cash crunch
For those with short memories, this was talked about twenty years ago in response to the Kerr Report. It didn’t really go anywhere then.
In Scotland, they developed minor injuries units – then cut them back to the bone. In England, there were genuine walk-in clinics but it was later decided that they weren’t particularly cost-effective and were underutilised.
This, sadly, smacks of policy made on the hoof. I’ll be interested to see what the Royal Colleges make of it – because I’m pretty cynical about it all.
I went to a walk in GP centre in the centre of Birmingham a number of years ago, with a would which had got infected.
It was in the basement of a Boots in one of the major shopping centres.
I had to pay for the prescription of course, but the service was very useful and incredibly convenient.
I’m bewildered by the negative comments about this. Just a mere 30 years ago I was able to walk in to my G.P. surgery and wait to be seen. It’s not some impossible task to setup again.
It’s a great idea and sorely needed but… we’ll need a lot of new GPs and I don’t know how that happens.
The government is bankrupt, billionaires own everything… we’re fucked regardless of vote.
“I’m a gammon and won’t listen to a fucking word because I’m a bigot! Caravans eh! Men can’t be lezzers! Get the brown folk out! Vote Reform!”
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