Booking a doctors appointment

[HereBeMonsters]

Vipers said:

HereBeMonsters said:

My local surgery only lets you book appointments 48hrs in advance. Means there is always an appointment available.

How do you know you will be ill in 48 hours ahead?

Well it's more likely that you will still be ill when you get the appointment. Rather than the previous surgery I went to that would let you book up to 2 weeks in advance.

[julian64]

Vipers said:

HereBeMonsters said:

My local surgery only lets you book appointments 48hrs in advance. Means there is always an appointment available.

How do you know you will be ill in 48 hours ahead?

Because normal people don't go to te doctor on the first day they are ill.

Unless of course that particular limb has actually fallen off.

[Flying Toilet]

bertelli_1 said:

Flying Toilet said:

oh and charge for parking.

The meter was broken. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Result!

[Man-At-Arms]

ali_kat said:

from a Dr who

isn't he retiring after the Christmas episode ?

[Vipers]

julian64 said:

Vipers said:

HereBeMonsters said:

My local surgery only lets you book appointments 48hrs in advance. Means there is always an appointment available.

How do you know you will be ill in 48 hours ahead?

Because normal people don't go to te doctor on the first day they are ill.

Unless of course that particular limb has actually fallen off.

Your probably right, but I was just thinking when I came back from Mumbai earlier in the year, with a horrendous cold, thought it may be swine flue, hense called same day, but generally speaking correct.

[Derby]

Check to see if your GP has an internet booking system. The surgery which I go to is impossible to get an appointment st and has an 0844 number that usually results in a 15 minute wait to be told no appointments are available. In the summer they introduced the internet booking system and things are much improved. Not sure if it allows for emergency appointments, but I think that most people say its an emergency just to get seen!

[condor]

My GP's surgery is very good. You phone from 0800 and once you get through ( can take 10 mins or so) you're then told to be there by 1015. I normally pick just after 0900, so the 9-5 workers have their chance to be seen quickly...and miss the late rush to get there before 1015. I'm usually seen within 5 minutes of arriving. Proper timed appointments are available as well, but I prefer to use the morning service.

[GMT13]

Holy thread resurrection!

Anyway, for the first time in what must be 10 years, I have had need to see the Dr. I phoned on Monday to be told there's no appointments left, ring again at 8am. Fine. Yesterday I rang at 8am, sat in a queue for close to an hour to be told there's no appointments left, ring again at 8am. Todays experience was a carbon copy of yesterday...

Is it no longer possible to see a doctor is this country?

[Countdown]

GMT13 said:

Holy thread resurrection!

Anyway, for the first time in what must be 10 years, I have had need to see the Dr. I phoned on Monday to be told there's no appointments left, ring again at 8am. Fine. Yesterday I rang at 8am, sat in a queue for close to an hour to be told there's no appointments left, ring again at 8am. Todays experience was a carbon copy of yesterday...

Is it no longer possible to see a doctor is this country?

We find that the best thing to do is to actually go down to the GP surgery.

[DaveTheRave87]

GMT13 said:

Holy thread resurrection!

Anyway, for the first time in what must be 10 years, I have had need to see the Dr. I phoned on Monday to be told there's no appointments left, ring again at 8am. Fine. Yesterday I rang at 8am, sat in a queue for close to an hour to be told there's no appointments left, ring again at 8am. Todays experience was a carbon copy of yesterday...

Is it no longer possible to see a doctor is this country?

In the hour you waited, the NHS spent £18,824,200

You see, it's very underfunded...

[BoRED S2upid]

15 year thread resurrection that’s got to be a record.

Ours has PATCHS its great. You fill in a form how bad is it? What do you want to happen etc.. add some pics and bosh. Last few appointments the 10 year old had a skin complaint the same day telephone consultation cream at the pharmacist waiting for you. 2 weeks ago I pulled a muscle and was in agony I really thought it was something else internally filled in the form 9:15 on a Monday 9:50 appointment. Can’t argue with that.

It’s not all broken.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

GMT13 said:

Is it no longer possible to see a doctor is this country?

Pretty much, I phoned about a year ago as I was worried about my blood pressure and you couldn't actually book an appointment. Eventually someone answered the phone and I was told a Dr would call me, in the end I think it took three weeks for them to finally call me.

I am sure they are still blaming Covid and the fact that Drs would rather spend time in their holiday homes in Cornwall rather than actually see any patients.

If you are seriously ill I assume you just die now and the problem goes away for the NHS?

[Granadier]

Countdown said:

We find that the best thing to do is to actually go down to the GP surgery.

My OH used to live across the road from her GP surgery. When she turned up at reception there asking for an appointment, they told her you can't book one in person, you have to go back home and phone up.

[Road2Ruin]

GP practices are privately run and handle their bookings as they see fit. I can do ours online, a long time in advance. If your's only oes 'same day' it may be they have a lot of no shows.