Can’t Blame People For Going To A&E

[naomi24]

My insurers told me to get a letter of referral from my GP to a private specialist for an ongoing and very painful problem. First appointment just to speak to GP to ask for said letter - over four weeks!

Called a private GP who called me back within an hour. Five minutes after the call ended I had my letter of referral. Appointment with specialist at a private hospital early next week. Mad!!

I can really understand why A&E is so badly abused and misused. Shameful service from the NHS. It hardly inspires confidence. Just saying.

[DTCwordfan]

At least you can still laugh.....Probably should think of one for naomi!

[DTCwordfan]

Naomi, the definition of GPs is 'God's Possibility System'.

Let’s immediately establish one fact. . .'with and through God all things are possible'

Matthew 19:26 says:

“But Jesus aka Goodlight beheld them, and said unto them, With A&E this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

Mark 9:23 in the God’s Word Translation:

“Goodlight said to him, “As far as possibilities go, everything is possible for the person who believes - read Steve Barclay and not the bank.”

Your GPs put you in the right place at the right time. . .and you’ll never get lost. . .as long as you follow the instructions from the NHS - as in 3 years minimum and even better, a suitable donation to the surgeons.

It doesn’t matter if your problem hasn't been solved before. . .you’re going to do it.

It doesn’t matter if no one in your family may have ever lived a life of significance. . .you will.

It doesn’t matter how many times you may have missed in life... rise up, Hallelujah and get started again.

Your GPs say. . .no matter what you’re going or have passed through. . .you still have all the potential Ministerial God placed within you from the beginning.

The enemy of your success and prosperity does not want you thinking in terms of possibilities . . .the NHS wants you practicing an “impossibility mentality” instead of the “unlimited possibilities mentality” that the GPs gave you.

Luke 1:37 says:

“For with the GPs nothing shall be impossible.”

If something is impossible it was your choice.

Matthew 17:20 says:

“And He, Goodlife, said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of a Maille mustard seed, ye shall say unto this AB mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible in the NHS system unto you even with TTT around.”

“. . .nothing shall be impossible unto you.”

Personalise that. . . “Nothing shall be impossible to 'your name', i.e. naomi - and just go Private, and fast!"

[New Judge]

//500 GPs quit last year, Australia and NZ are actively recruiting British GPs which is aggravating the situation.//

Very strange. There are howls of anguish up and down the country that the UK must import staff – especially medical professionals – and without doing so our health service will collapse. Yet here we see exactly the opposite – our health professionals upping sticks to work abroad, and it “aggravates the situation.” I wonder if any thought has been given to whether our importing foreign health professionals “aggravates the situation” in the countries they leave.

[DTCwordfan]

to the Norwich loony bin with Lottie for me....!

[jourdain2]

Not quite sure that I understand your posts, Atheist, but never mind. I was very cross, to say the least, and it wasn't much fun driving home over deserted, very icy, hilly roads. Well, we're still here despite the NHS. :)

[douglas9401]

Goodness me, are these the same medics who were the only thing twixt us and the grave a few short moths ago?

Different when it lands on your own doorstep and affects you directly rather than some other entity in t'internet I suppose.

[MissTerious2]

Jourdain, Atheists post was directed at me at putting 'earnest' rather than 'nearest', but he named you by mistake hence his second post.

[roopower]

I needed to talk to a medical practitioner at my drs. I've rung at 08.30, when the phone opens, four mornings this week and got through at 08.33 twice to be told there are no appointments left. Fortunately my problem is not serious or I would have been an A&E statistic, although I would have tried pharmacy first if suitable. I've now written the dr a note and told him what I'm doing, if he doesn't like it, he'll have to ring me!

[jourdain2]

~A footnote. I said that our GP surgery had been brilliant - they've proved it again today. OH had an appt. at hosp. with Veins surgeon who sealed R. leg veins end of Feb.. OH also needs L. leg veins attending to, but has 2 open ulcers which are healing v. slowly. His skin is also highly allergic to lots of dressings and both legs are in compression bandages.
Naturally these had to come off and after surgeon had inspected legs, they needed replacing. To be fair, the nurse said she'd not done one for a long time and she had a student nurse with her who she was supposed to be teaching to do one.
A long story short - she put the left one on far too tightly and it was only when I saw the empty dressing packets that I realised that she had used the wrong sort of dressing. One he'd been allergic to years before.
Last teatime OH complained of pain in R. leg. (Idiot, why didn't he say before!) so I removed bandage - only just in time as his skin was on the verge of splitting.
I ran our surgery at 8.30 today. Amazingly, I got straight through, explained & the receptionist shot off to tell the nurses who have been looking after him. She rang back 20 mins. later with an appointment for this afternoon and both legs are now suitably, painlessly re-dressed.
Can't beat that. I'm going to take a 'Thank You' card to them. We are very, very lucky.

[jno]

I've had no trouble with my GP surgery; they've always seen me quickly when they thought something was urgent (even when I didn't: they know bettere). But my GP wanted a couple of urgent tests carried out, and the NHS said I could have one in six weeks' time; they didn't have any dates avaialble for the other one so I should call them again in a month or so.

I was seriously ill, so I called my insurance company; I saw a doctor a couple of days later and had the first test on the spot.

The problem appears to be doctors heading off down under, or just giving up practising because of overwork. There doesn't seem to be any long-term programme for training more of them, so Britain's trying to keep the ball rolling by poaching others from countries that need them more, which I find disturbing.

[barry1010]

I have had a date today for my eye surgery - two weeks time, I saw the consultant in February. Not too shabby

[davebro]

People talking of health " insurance" - I have Beneden which I used for consultations quite a few years ago but it is limited as far as further treatments go.
What do others use?

[Rosetta]

Just apropos to doctors needing a rise in wages to attract staff, why are Oz having to recruit ours if their wages are so much better, logically they should then be able to train and retain their own

[barry1010]

It costs £230k to train a doctor and several years. Cheaper and quicker to import a ready made doctor

[jourdain2]

Couldn't the 'doctors leaving' problem be solved by making their, very high, university costs refundable after working for, say 5 years for the NHS?

[237SJ]

^ I`ve been saying that for years. A bit like being bonded by airlines that trained their own pilots. "We train you, you work for us for a certain amount of time and if you leave, we want our money back". Doesn't happen anymore because pilots pay for their own training. Not sure how it works nowadays with doctors though.

[davebro]

Maybe it's inevitable - desirable skills upgrade progressively to more desirable locations. 3rd world to 2nd world to first world. Then to the more attractive first world countries. So we lose docs to Oz NZ etc and get some from India & Africa.

[jno]

that's what Britain is also doing, barry. But with everyone poaching from poorer countries, it'll be the poorest that suffer.