No GPs?

grandMattie

I called my GP this morning. As it wasn't urgent, I was given a telephone appointment on "Thursday morning" - 0900 to 1330!
It's such a shame that they are SO overworked that they can no longer see their patients, leave take time to get to know them...

Overworked? 🤣🤣 they’ve nearly all gone over to part time working. It’s a 2 week wait for an appointment at our surgery but when you finally get there it’s like the Marie Celeste! 3 empty waiting areas at ours.

Our surgery I should also add, used to be good. Maybe it still is??

I called my GP this morning. As it wasn't urgent, I was given a telephone appointment on "Thursday morning" - 0900 to 1330!
It's such a shame that they are SO overworked that they can no longer see their patients, leave take time to get to know them...

Should say, the answerphone message says ring 999 if emergency. And ring 111 if need a doctor out of hours.

I am rarely ill. So I dont know what things are generally like at our surgery.
Been ill for 2 weeks.

Last week it was a Wednesday when I rang. Was 9th in queue. A Doctor rang me back within the hour. And presribed me something. Which I was able to pick up 2 hours later.
Today, it being a Monday, it keeps saying the queue is full so I havent been able to speak with even a receptionist so far.

nanna8

Ohh, that sounds awful Daisymae. What if you are really sick?

I would imagine that the receptionist asked the OP what the problem was and took the decision that a nurse practitioner was the appropriate person to see.
It works brilliantly in my surgery.

Ohh, that sounds awful Daisymae. What if you are really sick?

questioned it seems that a GP was doing telephone appointments but they had all gone. This surgery has several GPs, it's a large practice but poorly run. I had thought that they had been required to sort this out now.