Police call handler request.

My physio appointment is next week. Flare up has settled down so don't know if I should cancel, I wanted them to see how bad it is in a flare up.

Don’t cancel, it’s good it’s calmed down but you can tell them about it anyway. They may be able to advise. Otherwise it may return and you have to wait all over again,

I've found them useless with this hip problem. I had a neck of humerus fracture with dislocation and the physio did a marvellous job but with my hip I was told to do one thing which made it worse, then told I shouldn't have done that until it improved. Offered a steroid injection then advised not to have it. I've sorted of lost faith.

If you don't go back within a certain number of weeks they sign you off and you start again anyway.

I suppose I just need to be grateful it is a lot better.

I get the early morning newspapers ready for the lads to deliver. One of the lads came back one morning and said that one of the houses, an elderly gent, had 2 days of newspapers that were still in the locked porch. I phoned the non emergency police, explained what was going on and asked for a welfare check. After a lot of backwards and forwards I was told that it seemed like a health check was needed and to phone for an ambulance! So I phoned the non emergency line again and asked for an ambulance. Again, after a lot of to and fro I was told that there was nothing they could do as it was down to the police to do a welfare check. Apparently the police could force entry if needed while the ambulance crew couldn't.

So, having got nowhere after I finished at 9am I went knocking on neighbours doors to see if anyone knew anything. It turned out that the gents daughter had taken him away for the weekend and didn't think to cancel the newspaper delivery. The daughter and her dad thanked us for keeping an eye out and we now have an emergency contact telephone number for about 90% of our delivery accounts. Just in case.

Yes, I did put in a complaint to the Police department but haven't heard anything since.

silverlining48

Don’t cancel, it’s good it’s calmed down but you can tell them about it anyway. They may be able to advise. Otherwise it may return and you have to wait all over again,

Glad I took your advice. I've seen two previous physios and paid quite a bit of chiropractic treatment. None of it did much good and the one physio definitely made it worse. So I went to my appointment and saw a lovely young physio, she looked up all my notes, listened to what I had to say and said she didn't think it was arthritis that was causing the trouble although the hip is arthritic. She said it was a lateral problem when she examined me and gave me a set of exercises to do, said if it wasn't improving in six weeks to request another appointment and not to wait longer as I wouldn't get an immediate appointment.

The news is I have very little pain and at times no pain at all, I'm over the moon and planning on buying a thank you card and dropping it off to let her know how well it has gone.

So once again thanks for the advice.

Just to say I have no idea why I have a new name, I didn't change it.

At that time how can you say therexwas no danger to life,who would know??

@MrsMatt

What on earth did you put a complaint in for? Honestly, such a waste of emergency resources it’s unbelievable - you should be ashamed of yourself.