Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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It`s quicker than waiting a week to see a GP.............
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not quite that simple reg the two things are related though.
people in the age group 55 - 70 nowadays think that when they are feeling under the weather a trip to the doctor will solve it - their parents before them at a similar age either went to the chemist and bought something over the counter or just put it down to the aches and pains of getting older.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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nothing is ever that simple Howard,,just talking present day.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Mum, who will be 80 in August, fell and broke and gashed her nose on Bank Holiday Monday, she has recently been diagnosed with dementia. She rang her GP on Thursday to make an appointment to have her stitches removed and was told they didn't have any Drs' available. She was told to go back to A&E. We took her to a local nurse practitioners clinic and they refused to remove them saying that she would need to see her GP. She now has an appointment to see her own Dr tomorrow.
No wonder she's confused.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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so sad that the stops cannot be pulled out for an octogenarian, taking out stitches is hardly rocket science.
Keith Sansum1
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im sure many have stories such as the above.
I like the idea of when you eventually get an appointment, you can now use the computer at the surgery to book in
so no contact with humans lol.
I find it intruding that an untrained receptionist wants to know my full symptoms, she cannot solve them. nor is it anything to d with her.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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That's just to pass on to the doctor Keith, so he knows whether he'll need the short rubber gloves or the long ones.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the easiest way to deal with the problem when they ask you what is wrong is to say "hang on i'll get it out and show you", i always get sent straight in then.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I smell a Pincer Move...
NHS needs major changes to avoid disaster, say managers and charities
"The plea from the NHS Confederation, representing the health service senior managers, the Academy of Royal Colleges and National Voices is the latest attempt to campaign for fewer but bigger specialist centres for acute care and a properly planned transfer of other services outside hospitals at a time when fear of change being forced only by local financial cuts provokes big popular and political opposition..."
""Nobody understands the NHS better than its patients, clinicians and managers...." They say, which made me wonder who was left in ignorance. And I do not see much evidence of patient involvement. The "National Voices" says, "National Voices is the national coalition of health and social care charities in England. We work together to strengthen the voice of patients, service users, carers, their families..."
And yet, not a patient in sight...
"We have more than 150 members with 130 charity members and 20 professional and associate members...."
For the whole article and the live links...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/05/nhs-major-changes-managers-charitiesIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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sounds like more pressure groups have concerns
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"Jeremy Hunt says he wants GPs to take back out-of-hours responsibility (Out of GPs' hands, Society, 5 June). I have written to him twice asking for his support in City and Hackney. He didn't answer my first letter. He said we could tender for the contract like any other provider in response to my second letter. We have heard him repeatedly state over the last few weeks that GPs taking ownership of out-of-hours care is the way forward to provide safe and effective care for patients out of core GP opening hours. Our clinical commissioning group have been told they cannot "legally" make the decision to give our newly formed social enterprise a contract to do this, although it is the preferred option for the GPs and residents of City and Hackney. In spite of the secretary of state saying that CCGs will be able to decide how they procure services, the contract has to go out to open tender, the costs of which are prohibitive to social enterprises. The law requires it. So if he thinks this is the way forward, why doesn't he legislate to make it possible? Otherwise all his words are empty.
Deborah Colvin
GP, Hackney"
And one other letter...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/05/gps-out-of-hours-careIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Shutting A&E departments can cost lives.
Recent reports showed that when an A&E in Newark closed, there was a 37% jump in patient deaths
Yet across the country A&Es are being cut. Not because of clinical need, but to meet unrealistic
financial demands made by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that is the one area where centralisation cannot be done, time is of the essence in an emergency and the statistics show that.
so much for localism.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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localism if nly
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Special report: Andrew Lansley to blame for A&E crisis, says quango
Lowering targets had an 'unintended consequence'
Andrew Lansley's decision to downgrade the four-hour waiting target for accident and emergency
admissions may have triggered the current beds crisis, an official NHS quango has concluded.
A report seen by The Independent on Sunday undermines the Government's position on the A&E crisis
and will fuel calls for the target to be reinstated.
An emergency summit last month by the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), a quango that
monitors the performance of hospitals, concluded that reducing the A&E waiting time target in 2010,
from 98 per cent of people seen within the four-hour period to 95 per cent, may have had the
"unintended consequence" of putting pressure on casualty departments.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Hes another being found out
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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thanks Howard
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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so is this guy the latest to have his head on the block
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Independent............
Fury at Jeremy Hunt's U-turn on child heart units
Specialists warn patients will suffer as Health Secretary suspends rationalisation plan
It has taken a dozen years, involved one of the worst scandals in the NHS's history and involved five
reports. But today, the national plan to concentrate children's heart surgery in fewer centres for safety
reasons was torn up and its architects sent back to the drawing board.
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced in the Commons that he was suspending the
controversial reform, which would have seen the number of hospitals providing surgery reduced from
10 to seven, following the latest of the five reports which said it was based on a "flawed analysis".
Children's heart charities reacted angrily. Anne Keatley-Clarke, the chief executive of the Children's
Heart Federation, said: "For the past 12 years, ever since the Bristol baby tragedy, we've been
campaigning to ensure that another crisis in the care of vulnerable children can never be allowed
to happen. It has been really disappointing to see the implementation of the necessary improvements
delayed. We want all heart-children, wherever they live in England, to have access to an excellent service."
