I have not tried for a while to get an appointment although I have a number of athritis signs and symptons ( common in my family).
My husband recently got cream prescribed by the doctor over the phone and my daughter managed to get a nurse practitioner to look at my grandson's painful knee. But the nurse said to just rest it as he had obviously hurt it. Nine years old budding tennis star and he was in a lot of pain.
It was not until my daughter went to a private sports injury clinic that it was diagnosed as torn inner ligament , and the appropriate treatment was prescribed / advised.
We zoomed into a church service recently and a fellow member / also a GP, said that GPs will not be going back to the old way of seeing patients at the practice.!!!
She said it rather too gleefully for my liking.
Maybe it is because I am an ex supply teacher ( last taught 20-3-20 and not sure if I will go back) and that I know how utterly hard, even more than usual, my colleagues have been working for the past year with no protection, that I am feeling peeved or maybe it is because I don't really know now, how to do the doctor visiting thing, but I think GPs are getting off lightly.