Ok so this is more in the nature of a rant, I'm afraid. A few weeks ago, my GP, who I have to move heaven and earth to get an appointment with, asked me to make an appointment to have my blood pressure taken with the nurse, to ask her to check their monitor against mine and if mine was reasonably accurate I was to take blood pressure readings twice a day for a week and then ask for a telephone consultation with the doctor to discuss the readings. I did this, and on Monday of this week, I took the readings down to the surgery and handed them, in an envelope marked for the doctor's attention, to the receptionist so that the doc could have a look at them before I spoke to her on the phone on Wednesday. I thought this would be helpful and take up less of her time. On Wednesday I was told she had shifted her telephone consults to Friday and she phoned me this morning. She asked me for the readings and I said "you have them - I handed them in on Monday". But guess what - she hasn't got them, and I, stupidly, didn't take a copy, which I could, and should, have done. Unless she can find them today, we look like having to do the whole thing over again, which is going to take another two weeks. I could scream. You expect these people to have a modicum of organisation but today I just want to kick someone up the a**e! Sorry, got that off my chest now. Probably my BP is somewhere at ceiling level as we speak so I won't be writing that one down!
