GPs - working from home, wherever that might be!

She works remotely for the NHS.

So did The Times actually lie and say she was an NHS G.P?

NotSpaghetti

If it's only a phone or online consultation I don't think it matters to me where they are so long as properly qualified and are keeping "up to date" with their practice.

Agree what's the issue?
It's common since the Pandemic in fact I work from home analysing Pacemaker clinical data, phoning patients if needed, writing reports organising their clinical follow up appointments.
We just send a letter to patient which gets printed off within our Department.
All the information I need is available via the Trust Link which I log into via a secure link. We don't need the Patient in front of us unless there is a problem, which I would have established either from my clinical judgment or speaking directly to them.
This is now the future, it's happening through the world . The vast majority of the patients love it, no issues getting into the Hospital, no waiting around. Patients are told at implant this is the way they will be followed up, so they are aware.

So doing a GP clinic with everything they need, it's going to happen more and more before any Face to face appointment is given.

Fine with me.

I speak on the phone with GP, all sort of consultations.

My husband consults by phone, he makes sure he can focus, hear, and have paper/pen at hand, laptop running. Other family members consult out of the country, also concentrating/taking notes.

My husband has literally just come off the phone. His Doctor just rang him from a Withheld number so I nearly didn’t answer. It always says “Doctor” when someone from our surgery rings.

I would want to know that, when in Greece, or the UK for that matter, that she was working alone in a room with nothing to distract her from her work and all would be be ing conducted in a professional manner.

I am not saying doctors should not work from home, but given the critical nature of their work, they should always work in professional surroundings,

At the beginning of the COVID lockdown DD nearly died because her doctor diagnosed and prescribed for her without seeing her - and he was ringing from the surgery.

If I have to see a doctor I prefer to see the one who spoke to me on the phone.

This is not a story about an NHS GP.

If it's only a phone or online consultation I don't think it matters to me where they are so long as properly qualified and are keeping "up to date" with their practice.

The GP is employed by the Hurley Group, not the NHS. She is employed specifically to carry out telephone and online consultations. If patients need a physical examination, she will refer them to a colleague in the clinic.