Getting a Doctors appointment is impossible

On Tuesday DH (who has been ill since Christmas) decided he was too ill to go and get some blood taken. I spoke to his specialist nurse who said that if he was that ill I'd better get a doctor to see him. I organised a GP home visit whereupon he made a miraculous recovery! So I cancelled the home visit. Today I rang and spoke to a GP who agreed with me that DH needed some antibiotics. I duly went out to collect them from the chemist and arrived home to find a message from the surgery to say that someone had tried to visit DH! I rang back - with the obligatory 15 minutes in a queue - and explained that the visit request had been cancelled three days ago! Fine, sorted! Well not actually! Half an hour later there was a call from our own GP wanting to know if I wanted to speak to him. I told him I'd spoken to one of the other doctors. Then he said what about the home visit? I told him I'd already cancelled it twice! Talk about overkill!

Id be putting a little oil in so that if it's the wax, then the softening of it has got a head start. Rather than being told next week that nothing can be done because the wax has to be softened.

According to a report in the paper today, parents of schoolchildren are "clogging up" surgeries for school sick notes.

You can buy sodium bicarbonate drops from pharmacies for bunged up ears. I have always found these drops more effective at softening ear wax than olive oil.

Speak to your pharmacist first port of call, second if you have a walk in centre try that, do you have the facility to book an appointment online I find that a good way of getting an appointment with who I want to see and no queue waiting on the phone We also have a facility to talk to the doc over the phone after surgery
If you ve had it a few weeks it’s not urgent is it ?

I see you have got an appointment nannyme but you asked what we would have done.

Well firstly I’d have gone to a pharmacist and asked for advice. Then if that didn’t work I’d have done as you did and ask for a GP appointment and rung back as requested on the Monday. Everybody wants to be seen immediately even though the condition could wait a few days.

I hope your ‘buzzy ears’ are not life threatening, merely an inconvenience and a nuisance.