GPs - What is going on?
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Phones for an appointment to get my leg looked at after insect bite. Pretty bad reaction, hot, swelling, and getting worse. Gp refuses to see me, rather asks me to send picture in. I sjed in the picture, which really doesn't tell the whole story. They fob me off saying no need to worry, here is some cream. It gets worse. They again block any kind of fave to face appointment.
I end up doing an online consultation with 111. They eventually phone me ten hours later, by which I've gone to A and E with a massively deteriorating situation. Hospital diagnose cellulitis and put me on the mother of all antibiotics.
If the GP had seen me, rather than the receptionist asking for photos, they would have seen the swelling first hand and it could have been sorted easily. Instead I end up going to A and E which is packed, 8hr wait.
What is the point of a GP now? It's madness.
I end up doing an online consultation with 111. They eventually phone me ten hours later, by which I've gone to A and E with a massively deteriorating situation. Hospital diagnose cellulitis and put me on the mother of all antibiotics.
If the GP had seen me, rather than the receptionist asking for photos, they would have seen the swelling first hand and it could have been sorted easily. Instead I end up going to A and E which is packed, 8hr wait.
What is the point of a GP now? It's madness.
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