And what?
Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles
Submitted 2 hours ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74xqn2zg1eo
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RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 33 minutes ago
skeezix@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
pay no attention to the racist
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 hour ago
Guess what fuckers, they dont want to be there any more than you want them there. Fix the gp system and it’ll all magically disappear.
Shocking no one wants to try and have a conversation about their health by shouting over the counter to a pharmacist in a packed shop as they vaguely listen with one ear while packing medication.
mjr@infosec.pub 35 minutes ago
Shocking no one wants to try and have a conversation about their health by shouting over the counter to a pharmacist in a packed shop as they vaguely listen with one ear while packing medication.
You can ask for a consultation with the pharmacist, which should be in a private side room. Of course, you do have to wait a bit if they’re busy dispensing, but it’ll almost always be quicker than the wait in A&E.
Agree entirely that the real solution is to fix the GP appointments farce, which in most places is still a choice between wardialling at 8am for an urgent triage appointment or waiting weeks for a non-urgent appointment by which time you’ve recovered or deteriorated to the point of visiting A&E anyway.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Would you say we should nationalise GPs? Would that help?
mjr@infosec.pub 34 minutes ago
Not necessarily. It could also be done by requiring humane appointments systems in the GP contracts.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 hour ago
😭
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Until same-day GP appointments are available and easy to book this won’t change.
khannie@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
They partly solved that here (Ireland) by making A&E visits €100 but free if your GP sends you in, but it sounds from the other comments like your GP situation is dire over there. How bad is it?