Doctors

My GP surgery is excellent and although I've had to wait for appointments I've been on two cancer pathways this year and have been seen quickly and efficiently. Admin and paperwork has been poor at times but doctors have been excellent.

Around here, people agree that anything involving an emergency is handled well[unless at peak times and then you can be stuck in an ambulance, or on a trolley for however long, even if very ill].

And if you have had a major health event you get quite good treatment.

"Routine" appointments however - expect a long, or very long wait.

It’s dreadful. I veer between agreeing £18 an hour for a resident doctor who might save the life of a baby or an elderly person during one long shift, is not enough, to thinking we all need to make sacrifices for our nhs

I was recently admitted after an emergency trip to A and E. The entire experience was excellent,

Not mine! She phones regularly to check I'm OK and is currently trying to get Continuing Care funding for me. My hospital experiences are not too bad except when I've had go to A&E on a Friday evening!
But they still haven't got my medical history from Wales after two and a half years. It's not the doctors - it's the administration.

GPs seem to be working to a script nowadays. Excuse the pun.

I agree. I've lost a lot of respect and had some horrible experiences with them the last few years. Partly it's not their fault - directions from on high re funding etc. There are a couple of GP's at my surgery who are ok but there is no real care there.