Because their service quality wasn’t already shit enough?
Surely this must put them into negative care, where upon I’m due to receive calls from GP’s trying to book appointments to see me?
This is lunacy. Giving someone a jab doesn’t require a doctor. Why not get all the army field medics to do it? Call in retired nurses.
GPs are already at breaking point. I don’t get this at all.
*Ministers have given GPs in England the green light to provide less care to patients for the next four months so they can join the “national mission” to urgently deliver Covid booster jabs.*
*Family doctors will spend less time monitoring people with conditions such as diabetes and heart problems, do fewer health checks on people over 75 and stop performing minor surgery until April.*
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Would anyone like to join me in frothing fury at the grotesque stuipidity of the last two years and this governments pandemic response?
Over the last two years the necessary steps to train and equip a ‘vaccination taskforce’ could have been taken.
Of course those with assets I’m sure can get to see a GP sharpish.
Never actually seen my doctor in person only on the phone …
And they wonder why late-stage cancer diagnoses are on the rise.
Very misleading headline, so to clarify: GP surgeries receive a large chunk of their funding based on something called QOF. Basically if they make sure everyone has high blood pressure gets it checked each year they get points. Same with diabetes, asthma, etc etc. The more points they get the more money they get (up to a maximum).
What this means is GP staff (mostly nurses/HCAs) spend a huge amount of their time doing these checks or chasing people up to get them done. Includes ringing everyone who smokes asking them if they want help to quit. Of course all the time they spend doing this is time they can’t be offering open appointments or giving Covid vaccines.
At the start of the pandemic the government agreed GP practices would get the funding regardless so they could focus on the Covid response. So the last two years we haven’t had to chase QOF points. This has now been extended another year.
This just seems absolutely crazy considering the number of people with health issues other than covid who have suffered as a result of reduced service.
God help those who need the NHS for urgent / essential care this winter.
I want my N.I back so I can put it into a private health care fund for myself and partner seeing how we are not going to be getting any decent form of healthcare when we ask for it, yet when me and her (and others who work on retail) were asked to keep working through covid, we did, haven’t been able to book an appointment at the GP in 3 years, let alone actually talk to one.
A pandemic … of pharma CEOs not making enough money
Gov treating boosters like the **only** important healthcare issue because of a variant is beyond the pale
There was a big drive for volunteers previously, it seems there isn’t as much appetite for them to come forward again but I am not surprised. Getting GP’s to focus on jabs just seems inefficient.
GP receptionists are going to be loving this, even less work and even more gatekeeping.
Less care? Can it get any lesser than it already is? If you stuck the GP’s receptionists on our borders, none of these immigrants crossing over would ever enter the country. That’s how hard it is to get your foot through the GP’s door nowadays.
Less than zero care? Maybe they’ll wait all week for me to ring them back to say that their lack of care is viral so there’s nothing I can do.
Actually no, I’ll get my unqualified-for-fuck-all receptionist Janet to do it.
This sounds like a terrible idea, it’ll just lead to A&E being even more overwhelmed as people will find it harder to get appointments.
I honestly hope not, it has taken me over a year to get a face to face appointment for my asthma review but yet I can only have a telephone appointment for my chronic migraines and my heart problems, and I’m at my breaking point with it all.
I get we need people vaccinated but what is the point of setting up vaccination centres and having all these volunteers helping out.
My father had pancreatitis which made him diabetic. His pancreas was almost totally not functioning. The doctor’s said it was serious. He was referred for a heart scan in February, and has still not had a date.
If GPs want to shirk their duties they should take a pay cut, many have no sejse of duty as it is anyhow. We let our GPs get away with too much. Over the course of my adult life I’ve seen two specialists and 5 GPs. Only the one GP and the one specialist was any good, and actually pushed and Investigated.
My father was told by one doctor – a Ugandan man who was incredibly hard to understand, both due to his heavy accent and rudimentary English (Very small vocabulary, hard to explain some things as there were so many words he didn’t understand. “Throttling, as in twisting something, was one of them) – that there was a good chsnce he had cancer. In another appointment my father brought this up (With another GP, impossible to stay with one), and was told by her that that was totally wrong, and his tumour markers were well below the threshold for potential cancer
All the others were more than happy to throw tablets at me, or do a blood test and say “Sorry bud, we don’t know”.
Thousands of women are now suffering with breast cancer, which could’ve been caught early and nipped in the bud if we didn’t spend so much resources on Covid.
Covid kills and has killed many, but it is not a “deadly” disease, most people recover and are totally fine.
We focus on this disease and ignore those with potential cancers, heart problems, mental issues. It’s scandalous. The NHS needs a total shakedown, every single pen pusher needs to he evaluated and the position itself too.
When are we finally going to have an expose on the years of grift and flagrant theft of the health budget that GP surgeries have engaged in for the last 20 years plus.
We put record amounts of money into the NHS and services keep being withdrawn. GP salaries increase massively and opening hours are a fraction of what they used to be.
This headline is completely sensationalist. What has happened is a temporary reduction in bureaucracy to free up GP practices to prioritise more urgent patient care, including the vaccine drive. They will still do annual checks on those who are deemed to clinically need them, but this means they can still receive funding if they don’t complete the hundreds of completely routine health checks on patients with chronic conditions for a limited period.
So this temporarily frees up already massively stretched resources, where we are now expecting them to lead the booster roll out and flu jabs also. We should be welcoming it, since we constantly complain about NHS bureaucracy limiting care, but instead we are told GPs will be providing ‘less care’.
How is it possible we dont have a vaccine task force set up in the same way we have a testing task force. It’s utterly obvious we will need multiple vaccines for multiple years.
My experience with the NHS this last year has been shambolic. I fucking despise it. I’m not blaming the NHS we all know what’s to blame and it’s not the doctors and nurses.
I really fail to understand why there is not more outspoken and obvious public outrage on this issue. I’m talking demonstrations, protests, sit ins on the lawn outside Westminster. We are all paying for a level of service we are not receiving. The NHS is so ingrained into our culture, that if our constitution was written down it might as well be at the top. If you paid for private healthcare, and got a phone call saying you pay the same but your dental cover is removed; and then a letter saying wait times for appointments are going up; and then a text advising your prescription costs aren’t covered anymore – you would go to a different insurer. I really fail to understand why people keep voting Conservative knowing this is their modus operandi (all other issues of policy aside). How much further does this have to go when for years we have read the same headlines every December about a new Winter of Discontent?
GPs already provides fuckall care right now, if you can even get to see them at the minute with how stupidly hard they can be to visit or get an appointment.
Last week we decided to withdraw from the vacc program specifically to concentrate on our core role. It’s been a big distraction. And this new “encouragement” to keep going isn’t going to sway my decision.
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Because their service quality wasn’t already shit enough?
Surely this must put them into negative care, where upon I’m due to receive calls from GP’s trying to book appointments to see me?
This is lunacy. Giving someone a jab doesn’t require a doctor. Why not get all the army field medics to do it? Call in retired nurses.
GPs are already at breaking point. I don’t get this at all.
*Ministers have given GPs in England the green light to provide less care to patients for the next four months so they can join the “national mission” to urgently deliver Covid booster jabs.*
*Family doctors will spend less time monitoring people with conditions such as diabetes and heart problems, do fewer health checks on people over 75 and stop performing minor surgery until April.*
****
Would anyone like to join me in frothing fury at the grotesque stuipidity of the last two years and this governments pandemic response?
Over the last two years the necessary steps to train and equip a ‘vaccination taskforce’ could have been taken.
Of course those with assets I’m sure can get to see a GP sharpish.
Never actually seen my doctor in person only on the phone …
And they wonder why late-stage cancer diagnoses are on the rise.
Very misleading headline, so to clarify: GP surgeries receive a large chunk of their funding based on something called QOF. Basically if they make sure everyone has high blood pressure gets it checked each year they get points. Same with diabetes, asthma, etc etc. The more points they get the more money they get (up to a maximum).
What this means is GP staff (mostly nurses/HCAs) spend a huge amount of their time doing these checks or chasing people up to get them done. Includes ringing everyone who smokes asking them if they want help to quit. Of course all the time they spend doing this is time they can’t be offering open appointments or giving Covid vaccines.
At the start of the pandemic the government agreed GP practices would get the funding regardless so they could focus on the Covid response. So the last two years we haven’t had to chase QOF points. This has now been extended another year.
This just seems absolutely crazy considering the number of people with health issues other than covid who have suffered as a result of reduced service.
God help those who need the NHS for urgent / essential care this winter.
I want my N.I back so I can put it into a private health care fund for myself and partner seeing how we are not going to be getting any decent form of healthcare when we ask for it, yet when me and her (and others who work on retail) were asked to keep working through covid, we did, haven’t been able to book an appointment at the GP in 3 years, let alone actually talk to one.
A pandemic … of pharma CEOs not making enough money
Gov treating boosters like the **only** important healthcare issue because of a variant is beyond the pale
There was a big drive for volunteers previously, it seems there isn’t as much appetite for them to come forward again but I am not surprised. Getting GP’s to focus on jabs just seems inefficient.
GP receptionists are going to be loving this, even less work and even more gatekeeping.
Less care? Can it get any lesser than it already is? If you stuck the GP’s receptionists on our borders, none of these immigrants crossing over would ever enter the country. That’s how hard it is to get your foot through the GP’s door nowadays.
Less than zero care? Maybe they’ll wait all week for me to ring them back to say that their lack of care is viral so there’s nothing I can do.
Actually no, I’ll get my unqualified-for-fuck-all receptionist Janet to do it.
This sounds like a terrible idea, it’ll just lead to A&E being even more overwhelmed as people will find it harder to get appointments.
I honestly hope not, it has taken me over a year to get a face to face appointment for my asthma review but yet I can only have a telephone appointment for my chronic migraines and my heart problems, and I’m at my breaking point with it all.
I get we need people vaccinated but what is the point of setting up vaccination centres and having all these volunteers helping out.
My father had pancreatitis which made him diabetic. His pancreas was almost totally not functioning. The doctor’s said it was serious. He was referred for a heart scan in February, and has still not had a date.
If GPs want to shirk their duties they should take a pay cut, many have no sejse of duty as it is anyhow. We let our GPs get away with too much. Over the course of my adult life I’ve seen two specialists and 5 GPs. Only the one GP and the one specialist was any good, and actually pushed and Investigated.
My father was told by one doctor – a Ugandan man who was incredibly hard to understand, both due to his heavy accent and rudimentary English (Very small vocabulary, hard to explain some things as there were so many words he didn’t understand. “Throttling, as in twisting something, was one of them) – that there was a good chsnce he had cancer. In another appointment my father brought this up (With another GP, impossible to stay with one), and was told by her that that was totally wrong, and his tumour markers were well below the threshold for potential cancer
All the others were more than happy to throw tablets at me, or do a blood test and say “Sorry bud, we don’t know”.
Thousands of women are now suffering with breast cancer, which could’ve been caught early and nipped in the bud if we didn’t spend so much resources on Covid.
Covid kills and has killed many, but it is not a “deadly” disease, most people recover and are totally fine.
We focus on this disease and ignore those with potential cancers, heart problems, mental issues. It’s scandalous. The NHS needs a total shakedown, every single pen pusher needs to he evaluated and the position itself too.
When are we finally going to have an expose on the years of grift and flagrant theft of the health budget that GP surgeries have engaged in for the last 20 years plus.
We put record amounts of money into the NHS and services keep being withdrawn. GP salaries increase massively and opening hours are a fraction of what they used to be.
This headline is completely sensationalist. What has happened is a temporary reduction in bureaucracy to free up GP practices to prioritise more urgent patient care, including the vaccine drive. They will still do annual checks on those who are deemed to clinically need them, but this means they can still receive funding if they don’t complete the hundreds of completely routine health checks on patients with chronic conditions for a limited period.
So this temporarily frees up already massively stretched resources, where we are now expecting them to lead the booster roll out and flu jabs also. We should be welcoming it, since we constantly complain about NHS bureaucracy limiting care, but instead we are told GPs will be providing ‘less care’.
How is it possible we dont have a vaccine task force set up in the same way we have a testing task force. It’s utterly obvious we will need multiple vaccines for multiple years.
My experience with the NHS this last year has been shambolic. I fucking despise it. I’m not blaming the NHS we all know what’s to blame and it’s not the doctors and nurses.
I really fail to understand why there is not more outspoken and obvious public outrage on this issue. I’m talking demonstrations, protests, sit ins on the lawn outside Westminster. We are all paying for a level of service we are not receiving. The NHS is so ingrained into our culture, that if our constitution was written down it might as well be at the top. If you paid for private healthcare, and got a phone call saying you pay the same but your dental cover is removed; and then a letter saying wait times for appointments are going up; and then a text advising your prescription costs aren’t covered anymore – you would go to a different insurer. I really fail to understand why people keep voting Conservative knowing this is their modus operandi (all other issues of policy aside). How much further does this have to go when for years we have read the same headlines every December about a new Winter of Discontent?
GPs already provides fuckall care right now, if you can even get to see them at the minute with how stupidly hard they can be to visit or get an appointment.
Last week we decided to withdraw from the vacc program specifically to concentrate on our core role. It’s been a big distraction. And this new “encouragement” to keep going isn’t going to sway my decision.