Very Brassed Off

[mallyh]

waited quite a while for hospital appointment with a surgeon ,eventually got one for yesterday ,quite a drive then trying to find parking space ,sat in waiting room for 40 odd minutes when nurse came and said he was running late there would be a delay then after another 10 minutes 2 nurses came out and asked who had appointments with mr surgeon ,the clinic has been cancelled and they will send out another appointment , rant over x

[newmodarmy]

As far as I can see there's nothing slagging off doctors and nurses. It's more the organisation,  management and systems that's the issue

[mallyh]

the nurses were very apologetic and i said it's not your fault ,it's just the not knowing will have to wait until next appointment x

[nicebloke1]

Well pay a visit to any hospital day or night and see the front line staff get it in the neck. The powers that be in hospitals are out of sight and mind. In one of these posts someone working on yhe front line got slagged for just dropping a pile of files. I wonder how helped him or her pick them up? None i guess just sat there and moaned, very like on here.

[Vagus]

I feel very very lucky where we live, which is a normal area. We have a great GPsurgery and can get an apppintment on the same day if we need it (all requests are triaged which works well), and hospital appointments are pretty quick. We've both had one in the last week,both were suddenly required. We were seen, things set in motion, prescription  meds sent to hospital pharmacy.

I do feel really sorry for those who have real problems with GP and hospital.

[jourdain2]

It varies so much.  We've been waiting for months for a cardio-echograph fro Mr. J2, GPs concerned.  I had to rush him in today to GPs for various reasons...........

amazingly at 6.00p.m. we had an invitation for a cancellation echo-cardiogram next Thursday lunchtime.

ll very unsettling, but we'll grab this with both hands.