We can all have good ideas - BUT there is no one who is even considering taking them on board!

The prescription issue has been bugging me for a long time - so who is going to do something about it?

I could add to this prescription farce, my father in law and brother both died in the last 5 years - in both cases there were more than a carrier bag full of medications that had not been used.

My friend told me only last week that his father was ordering everything on his prescription list because he put crosses in the boxes - thinking that would mean he did not want the item - he is 95! To add to that he was even getting Paracetamol on a prescription - I could not believe my ears!!!! That was probably costing £'s more than the 20p you can buy it for on the High Street.

No one has yet commented on my issue with cancelled appointments - I believe the reason for cancelling these are two fold. Firstly it's because appointments are made so far in advance (in our case 6-12 months) that they do not know if specific doctors are working on those days. OR Secondly it's because the doctors we are seeing are also working on a private basis and are otherwise engaged elsewhere. So who picks up the bill for re-issuing appointments - the NHS! Common sense would say the NHS must have these doctors under contracts - just like a teacher, - and they would not be able to have time off inside certain dates (the equivalent of a term time). That could stop the waste in those areas.

Another area of waste - I recently was diagnosed with prostate cancer - so underwent various tests at the hospital, when I visited my doctor he told me he had no details of the results (this is 2 months later) and so needed to do other tests to verify certain things. What a waste - so much for the computer on his desk, if the info is not entered you might as well have a notepad!