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Update 2

Have had the phone call, and he is glad to have talked to me and it also gives me a certain satisfaction that my efforts were rewarded. He would have liked to have seen me and he may phone again after my next set of tests! He had heard of it and hasn't got another in his surgery or one within his chairmanship of the local GPs trust. He didn't know that I can't be diabetic and have my condition and he said that the free prescriptions etc. Would be kept on.
He has said that all my results, diagnosis and prognosis are in the surgeries files, sorted out the recommended repeat prescription with my test strips, . As my yearly diabetes tests are not due till November, he was quite happy to let the hospital deal with me. My retinopathy tests would still be carried out. We also discussed my meds.

I'm a bit happier know, but it is still so frustrating that you have to do so much to get seen medically in this country now, when do you go the out of hours?
Why do you need a GP at all?

Answers to the Health Secretary!!
 
can I ask...if you don't have diabetes why do you have a retinopathy test?
 
aqualung said:
can I ask...if you don't have diabetes why do you have a retinopathy test?
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Because of degeneration of my eyes, my symptoms are close to the same as diabetes and my condition may turn into T2.
 
I can order repeat prescriptions online and book GP appt as well, but if I want to se my usual GP or one of the partners it can be anything up to 3 weeks. If I don't mind seeing a locum/trainee I can usually get in wthin a day or two. When booking an appointment you can give a brief descripton of what's wrong, which gives them time to google the symptoms before i get there!
 
Hope your telephone talk with GP can bring some resolution for you.

People missing appts... Our gp now txting appt reminders... Brilliant!! Wait to see if this reduces the amount of wasted appts.. Hope so, cos then people needing them stand more chance of getting one!!

Don't forget if you want to go online to book appts then you have to inform receptionist who will give you a bit of paper with your special reference number to register online first....


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chris lowe said:
I can order repeat prescriptions online and book GP appt as well, but if I want to se my usual GP or one of the partners it can be anything up to 3 weeks. If I don't mind seeing a locum/trainee I can usually get in wthin a day or two. When booking an appointment you can give a brief descripton of what's wrong, which gives them time to google the symptoms before i get there!
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donnellysdogs said:
Hope your telephone talk with GP can bring some resolution for you.

People missing appts... Our gp now txting appt reminders... Brilliant!! Wait to see if this reduces the amount of wasted appts.. Hope so, cos then people needing them stand more chance of getting one!!

Don't forget if you want to go online to book appts then you have to inform receptionist who will give you a bit of paper with your special reference number to register online first....


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Can't do both! Hopefully (I won't hold my breath) that it will ease at my surgery, if and when I need a consultation!
 
Prescribing nurses are now taking more of the "on the day" appts as they have the ability to prescribe.

If wanting to see a specific gp " on the day" to be honest you are not going to get any joy...as they ate dealing more with persons that have on going critical illnesses as Cancer and heart disease and child emergencies.

For ongoing checks with GP's for diabetes in general, it is actually better to see the diabetic specialist nurse.

It is now seen by Practices, who really are up against it that if you have an emergency with a medical need then you will see anybody, just as you would if you went to A&E....

However, this does not negate them from telephone answering at 8am in morning.

At my last PPG meeting we had a retired BT engineer that told our Practice Manager just where the problems lay with the phone calls all coming in at 8am. Our problems at our Practice appear to be a problem with BT exchange and a line dropping dead and getting mis routed..






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On the Monday I asked for the appointment later in the week, not on the day, and that was the point, I still couldn't get one when I did phone on the day, and the point that he had time to speak to me on the phone, but not see me face to face. If I hadn't asked him to phone me , I would still be waiting and he wouldn't know about my condition, because even though my consultant had sent all the findings of the tests and diagnosis and prognosis, he wouldn't have read them! If I was waiting in the surgery for an appointment and I collapsed or had a hypo, the normal remedy would have been harmful, because he would've have known how to treat it!

My surgery has been in turmoil for a few years now, I have had three different named GP in 5 years, is it any wonder that you never get to see your named doctor!

I do appreciate the difficulties of surgeries in the Tory scheme to privatise the NHS, but to have to fight and harass and pressure your doctor to get a correct diagnosis. I cannot take the wrong diagnosis any further because of the trials and tribulations
 
Nosher, I do so totally agree with everything you said, but most of all hope that at the least you get someting resolved tomorrow over phone.. Some gp's when talking over the phone if they think you need to be seen can sort of "fit you in" sometimes....depends on how bad they think you are as well...

Another incidental thing our Practice is now having to do...if Gp's need to see you again in a weeks time say, the gp will either find appt when seeing you or give the patient a piece of paper to give the receptionist. The reason why... Some patients were coming straight out of one appt and booking up another for following week and doing this continuously...and needlessly according to gp's. They have had to adopt this policy to stop Patients booking up needless follow up appts.

It makes it very tough for patients that do need to get appts!!

Good luck tomorrow.



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donnellysdogs said:
Nosher, I do so totally agree with everything you said, but most of all hope that at the least you get someting resolved tomorrow over phone.. Some gp's when talking over the phone if they think you need to be seen can sort of "fit you in" sometimes....depends on how bad they think you are as well...

Another incidental thing our Practice is now having to do...if Gp's need to see you again in a weeks time say, the gp will either find appt when seeing you or give the patient a piece of paper to give the receptionist. The reason why... Some patients were coming straight out of one appt and booking up another for following week and doing this continuously...and needlessly according to gp's. They have had to adopt this policy to stop Patients booking up needless follow up appts.

It makes it very tough for patients that do need to get appts!!

Good luck tomorrow.



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When my surgery had a specialist diabetes GP (T1 only) , I was able to do this until I was coping quite well without having to see him regularly! He left and another doctor took over, whom I have to thank because she really didn't have a clue about anything about hypoglycaemia. So she referred me. But I do not think that my original GP would have been any help, cos he sent me here, there and everywhere, and I never got the right treatment until I sheepishly joined this site. I learnt a lot on here. Which encouraged me to fight my corner, insisting that I just had something different about my symptoms. I couldn't find out, I searched and searched, one of the symptoms was loss of confidence and anxiety. It wasn't until my consultant started the tests that sorted me. I only found out last week that I didn't have T2 diabetes, and everything was explained to me. How would you react, when everything you thought your symptoms said you had and then finding out that the people you put your trust in, didn't know what to do . And then treating me with meds that made me worse and made me keep getting worse when I told them that my symptoms were getting worse and I couldn't see the end of it! The last week has just put the cream on top, when it couldn't get to see him, it was another blow, that they just Didn't care!
Another symptom was anger and rage, which at times was really trying for my family, they knew I was not that person, the frustration, when it was like Victor Meldrew screaming at anything because of my frustration! I just want them to have a little more personal contact.
My health team at the hospital are excellent, I only have to pick up the phone if I need them, why are my named doctors the same? (Rhetorical question)

Thanks for the interest! My chat with my GP was interesting to say the least! He didn't know that my condition cannot be classed as diabetic. How would you feel when he asked me if my consultant was willing to take me off the diabetic general list! Stop all my free prescriptions eye tests etc. that's what he was thinking, 'oh it's not a problem' he said when I told him that my consultant insisted I stay on it, especially for retinopathy!

It's a god job that my consultant wants to use me as a guinea pig because what sort of care would I get from my GP?
 
donnellysdogs said:
Beggars belief to be honest!!


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This is why I am truly grateful that this site exists. I wouldn't like to think where I would be.
The only thanks to whoever, is that I've never had an emergency to the A & E, I shudder at the thought of being given all the high carbs and sugars and probably a glucagon injection that the paramedics give for hypos!


I know now that I have to wear my bracelet, and carry something low GI, with my medical description card in my phone wallet every time I venture out of the door. The pain is that because I've lost weight the bracelet is looser than When I first bought it! Ha!

If I get the chance next week I am thinking of going to my youngest sons surgery, to see if they would take me on, will all that's going on, do you think that they will take me on?

I wouldn't. Lol!
 
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