Anyone tried to see the QUACK LATELY?

Got a message on my repeat prescription saying I needed to see the doctor for a review.
Tried phoning, always engaged.
Went there at 4.30 tuesday, closed.
Tried phoning, got a recorded message, open from 8.30 till 6pm five days a week, this was at 5 pm.

Went there again yesterday at 4.30, "no you cant make an appointment as your doc is taking leave and we are not sure when he will be back".

Looked at the website.
You cannot now make morning appointments, you have to turn up at the surgery and get given a 5 min slot, you can then sod off until your time is due.

You can still make afternoon appointments.
Early morning appointments, for the poor sods who still work, have been scrapped because the docs were finding it hard work, apparently?

If anyone would like to join this decaying overworked surgeries list, this is the place to go.

The Mote Medical Practice - Doctors surgery opening times and what to do when we are closed

What the hell this lot is doing for most of the week baffles me?
Any thoughts

 

£85,430 for a four day week.
Think I missed out somewhere.
And since when has four days constituted full time employment

The Mote Medical Practice - Surgery policies on confidentiality, comments and suggestions, data protection etc

 

There's Good and Bad Docters, There's are people that care and then there is people who couldn't care a toss (but only for themself's)
Tis in all industry's

 

Pete,

Worth checking with your surgery, but I phoned mine to make a review appointment recently only to be told that I now have to do it over the phone with the GP ?


Armandii,

Wonder why you do not use the free Flue jabs, partic this year as they say there is a lot of it about already working its way around the world.

 

The point is @ricky101 , the idea behind it all is to stop you phoning the surgery, if you do most of the time you cant actually get through.
That is why you now have to actually go to the surgery, in the morning and get a 5 minute time slot allocated to you, face to face.
You then are told to come back later that morning to wait for your turn.

I only work about 40 minutes away from the surgery, so it would take me about an hour and a half to two hours to visit the doc, how people that commute to London everyday would manage to visit the Doc is beyond me?
I suppose it is basically a matter of taking a day off work for a 5 minute slot.

Same old story with the NHS, their time matters and yours doesn't, dont get me wrong, on some aspects the NHS is pretty good, but GPs are a law unto themselves, well mine is anyway.
And I was told that once by a hospital doctor.

 

Thank your lucky stars that you even *have* a GP.
Mr "M" and my boys cannot sign up with my GP because they have closed their books. It's a case of Dead Men's Shoes for them to get a place.

On the local news recently, people in Folkestone also can't register with a GP and surgeries are not only closing their books, but a goodly few have even closed down altogether!!

 

Yes I've seen the problems in Folkestone regarding GPs on the local news.

I get the impression our surgery is heading the same way.
Tried to get through 4 times this afternoon on the phone, first it was engaged, then I got a recorded message, and the last twice it was engaged, no chance to talk to anyone.

Bear in mind they say you should phone in the afternoon as it is quieter then.

It is a fairly large practice, you would have thought they would have more than one phone line?