This is a good example of what happens when a career path is constantly vilified.
The aspiring few take one look at it and think. “Why the hell would I want to do that.”
Our local surgery has gotten ridiculous, it can take days just to get an appointment like in the article. So imagine my shock I rang up a few days ago after the 8am rush, somehow still got an appointment… With GP+ provided by a private healthcare company!
It wouldn’t be so infuriating if the attempts to strangle off the public provision to replace it with more costly private services weren’t so fucking blatant. I’m in physio for issues with my ankle and seeing someone about mental health issues as well, both of which are also provided by private 3rd party companies. So literally all of my healthcare right now is the NHS paying over the odds for a private provider to do what it just used to do by itself.
my GP is near my home but holy sh*t is the practice useless. Near impossible to get an appointment, yet they still take new patients. They stopped doing blood tests, now I need to travel with train to get my blood taken. They only are paper GP as far as I can tell.
Its really very difficult to get an appointment but the fact my GP doesn’t believe in long covid has been a bigger problem. Systemic prejudice against those with chronic post viral conditions is really bad and these anti science doctors that don’t follow the NICE guidelines really shouldn’t be working for the NHS any more. If only the complaints system worked but alas they close ranks stronger than the police do.
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This is a good example of what happens when a career path is constantly vilified.
The aspiring few take one look at it and think. “Why the hell would I want to do that.”
Our local surgery has gotten ridiculous, it can take days just to get an appointment like in the article. So imagine my shock I rang up a few days ago after the 8am rush, somehow still got an appointment… With GP+ provided by a private healthcare company!
It wouldn’t be so infuriating if the attempts to strangle off the public provision to replace it with more costly private services weren’t so fucking blatant. I’m in physio for issues with my ankle and seeing someone about mental health issues as well, both of which are also provided by private 3rd party companies. So literally all of my healthcare right now is the NHS paying over the odds for a private provider to do what it just used to do by itself.
my GP is near my home but holy sh*t is the practice useless. Near impossible to get an appointment, yet they still take new patients. They stopped doing blood tests, now I need to travel with train to get my blood taken. They only are paper GP as far as I can tell.
Its really very difficult to get an appointment but the fact my GP doesn’t believe in long covid has been a bigger problem. Systemic prejudice against those with chronic post viral conditions is really bad and these anti science doctors that don’t follow the NICE guidelines really shouldn’t be working for the NHS any more. If only the complaints system worked but alas they close ranks stronger than the police do.