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<blockquote data-quote="db89" data-source="post: 2272399" data-attributes="member: 374526"><p>Hi, been a while since I've been around and posted here. I'm interested in how clinic appointments have been handled and are planned to be handled in future for other people in light of the outbreak.</p><p></p><p>I don't see or interact with my team often and had pretty much 1 clinic appointment a year (unless I really needed help and chased trying to get in touch with them outside of this) which I was due to have in about a month. Up to now I thought they would probably change this to some form of virtual arrangement but I've just had a letter which basically says that they've taken the decision to redesign their service, they've cancelled my appointment and won't send out routine appointments in future. We now have to be referred if we want an appointment like this in future.</p><p></p><p>I have to say I'm fairly dismayed at this. I'm quite bad at asking for help at the best of times and I saw these as my opportunity to discuss the bigger picture and set myself any goals that arose out of the discussion away from dealing with the day to day. It was also where I got any blood test results and we were able to discuss them. Whilst I understand routine has gone out of the window the last few months, it feels like I'm going to be left in the dark in future unless I go out of my way to waste my GPs time getting referred to have an appointment here and there. I also feel more widely people are going to fall through the cracks who don't necessarily need emergency help from the team but who would still benefit from occasional contact and review.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="db89, post: 2272399, member: 374526"] Hi, been a while since I've been around and posted here. I'm interested in how clinic appointments have been handled and are planned to be handled in future for other people in light of the outbreak. I don't see or interact with my team often and had pretty much 1 clinic appointment a year (unless I really needed help and chased trying to get in touch with them outside of this) which I was due to have in about a month. Up to now I thought they would probably change this to some form of virtual arrangement but I've just had a letter which basically says that they've taken the decision to redesign their service, they've cancelled my appointment and won't send out routine appointments in future. We now have to be referred if we want an appointment like this in future. I have to say I'm fairly dismayed at this. I'm quite bad at asking for help at the best of times and I saw these as my opportunity to discuss the bigger picture and set myself any goals that arose out of the discussion away from dealing with the day to day. It was also where I got any blood test results and we were able to discuss them. Whilst I understand routine has gone out of the window the last few months, it feels like I'm going to be left in the dark in future unless I go out of my way to waste my GPs time getting referred to have an appointment here and there. I also feel more widely people are going to fall through the cracks who don't necessarily need emergency help from the team but who would still benefit from occasional contact and review. [/QUOTE]
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