Can I Please Ask You All To Sign This...........

[mandymoosie]

Petition. The government are thinking about cutting down the number of times that we can see our GP's 😞

How on earth they think they're going to work this I just don't know.

What about people with chronic conditions of which there are Billions of us ?:|

It's hasn't gone through yet so we have chance to let them know we don't like it.

Many thanks in advance for your time :-x

https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/dont-cap-GP-visits#petition

[bitsnknots]

Must admit that our GP is brilliant.  If we ring at 8.30 am, we can get an appointment for that morning no questions asked.  If you don't mind waiting for an appointment, we can normally be seen within a week.

[ilove2patch]

Must admit that our GP is brilliant.  If we ring at 8.30 am, we can get an appointment for that morning no questions asked.  If you don't mind waiting for an appointment, we can normally be seen within a week.

Same here.:-D

[lhasa.two]

This really needs to be a government petition so that if the signatures reach over 100,000 it stands a good chance of being raised in the House of Commons... 

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/

chips, have to agree with most of what you say. 

I have a friend who is a GP and senior partner (owner) of two practices. He'll be 60 this year and he's still putting in anywhere between a 60-100 hour week which includes nights. He will retire at the end of this year as he's really had enough of all the government changes. 

From a personal point of view, because I've moved around a lot and have ongoing medical needs I've seen quite a difference in the standard of care and ability of GP's. I've recently moved to quite a large practice where they took ages to get my notes (all computerised so no excuse) from the last practice and when they did get them, failed to pass them on to the GP, so a wasted visit, this has happened twice... Whenever I've seen her she looks like a rabbit trapped in the headlights or is apologising for the errors. It doesn't inspire confidence. As a patient you want to feel your GP is "rooting" for you. I suggested she might like to have a "word" with her Practice Manager.

Young docs in hospitals worry me... their training is so different now and certainly less comprehensive than it used to be, all in the name of fast tracking to consultant level.

I now like to see hospital docs who are over the age of 45... 

I don't know what the answers are to keep our NHS going and making it more efficient. I've heard all the points of view all my adult life, decade after decade, nothing much changes, just the difference in size of "tweeking".  It's always been said that you can't run the NHS like a business but there are elements of business practice that could be introduced to streamline the process. 

I particularly find it irking that yet again successive governments fail to plan ahead for the ageing population just as they failed to see the pension problems looming and all this long before the 2007/8 meltdown, so they have no excuse.