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I did a posting on xray times around the country a while back. The difference in standards is huge!!
 
Janiept said:
Can you make a request for this at any time or only if you are under treatment for something that might necessitate resuc?
I spoke to my GP about DNR about a year ago and she dismissed it, as if you collapse in the street medics will always do everything they can to keep you alive so she said it was pointless.
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JTL said:
I have to go to two hospitals in England.
Their stuff is not available online to the NHS hospitals I attend in Wales.
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good god!
 
donnellysdogs said:
My hospital cannot access any records as it is outside of my CCG area. So everytime I go I have to take my blood test results etc with me if they are done by GP. Or if I get taken to local hospital for say my bowel-my diabetes consultant at the best diabetes care hospital will not be aware so I will have to tell her etc....

Our hospital doesn't even have our folders on site at the hospital.. They are collected everyday for outpatient appointments and operations etc. So there is very little actually done electronically....
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Scarey! everything is done electronically at mine,documents are scanned in where applicable, appointments are made on line for GP but not the nurses (they are holding out). the big records room is now empty. Repeat prescriptions are done on line, just tell the GP where you want to pick it up from if they don't tell you. As for hospital they give you a code, you go online for the hospital and make an appointment, easy - when it works. The hospital has the same access to my notes as a GP only they do not reciprocate. A hospital in Torquay can tap into my details, check my past history before they treat me. they are even planning a super hospital in the middle of nowhere to serve 3 towns, that's not explained right, they are taking facilities from 3ER hospitals (down grading them) in 3 towns and building 1 big one somewhere between them on a green field site. it will be serving north east hampshire. It will be providing more facilities under one roof. Can't wait to see how that works out. I do not have a diabetic consultant but 3 others that currently do not communicate to each other. Decide for yourself if you think it is good or bad.
 
brenda walker said:
Scarey! everything is done electronically at mine,documents are scanned in where applicable, appointments are made on line for GP but not the nurses (they are holding out). the big records room is now empty. Repeat prescriptions are done on line, just tell the GP where you want to pick it up from if they don't tell you. As for hospital they give you a code, you go online for the hospital and make an appointment, easy - when it works. The hospital has the same access to my notes as a GP only they do not reciprocate. A hospital in Torquay can tap into my details, check my past history before they treat me. they are even planning a super hospital in the middle of nowhere to serve 3 towns, that's not explained right, they are taking facilities from 3ER hospitals (down grading them) in 3 towns and building 1 big one somewhere between them on a green field site. it will be serving north east hampshire. It will be providing more facilities under one roof. Can't wait to see how that works out. I do not have a diabetic consultant but 3 others that currently do not communicate to each other. Decide for yourself if you think it is good or bad.
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Online at GPs- ours is top of the list for electronics and prescriptions etc.... They jyst can't transfer the data.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if a consultants secretary wrote to GP and it was sent electronically? No, in England and Wales this isn't done....

The system that was meant to have come in with the NHS didn't. It was abandoned...
 
that explains a lot. these systems cost millions if not billions. no wonder there is a big financial hole. I have contacted my consultant garny's secretary this morning and promises to put my notes infront of her as soon as she has finished her clinic. so i wait with hope - that she does look at it and the lump and the mass is just fat or maybe it's a baby!! Time will tell.
 
donnellysdogs said:
Online at GPs- ours is top of the list for electronics and prescriptions etc.... They jyst can't transfer the data.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if a consultants secretary wrote to GP and it was sent electronically? No, in England and Wales this isn't done....

The system that was meant to have come in with the NHS didn't. It was abandoned...
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Where I work we are starting to get consultants and certain clinical letters directly to docman which are then filed directly onto patients notes and sent to the gp to review. A&E and out of hours reports also come this way as do blood and scan and x ray results. However, this is only from certain hospitals in my area. Not all of them are online with this yet. Any results that are urgent are still faxed over to the GP requiring an acknowledgement.

As an aside though, quite a few people dont understand who has their results. When they have tests at a hospital they are told results will be sent to their doctor. Many assume this means the GP. It doesnt necessarily. It means whichever doctor ordered the tests. So if a consultant at the hospital ordered the test he'll get the result so theres no point chasing your GP. GP s will only get test results for tests they've ordered.
 
mrspuddleduck said:
Hi @brenda walker, sounds like you are having a really cr*ppy time. Firstly it sounds to me (and I'm fairly new to this diabetes lark and a type 1 so happy for more experienced/knowledgeable people to chip in!) that many of your problems could be down to your diabetes and possibly long term high blood sugars taking their toll. The rest of your problems are down to having a rubbish GP!
Firstly, are you testing? What are your blood sugar levels like? Is the metaformin sorted now?
Secondly is there another GP or nurse at the practice you can talk to? If not can you change GPs? It's actually really easy to do, I changed last year. My old GP made me feel like a time waster and even told me I was stupid because someone my age couldn't get type 1diabetes (even though the hospital had diagnosed me)! I was pathetic signing up at the new GPs, I was terrified that they would think I was a time waster or trouble maker for changing but they were lovely, took me seriously and sorted me out!
As for the tests, whilst I'm not a doctor, I know its not unusual for what they consider "non urgent" results to take weeks. Of course their idea of non urgent is different to ours - but sadly that's the result of our broken NHS, they are just over whelmed.
You need to make another appointment with a GP or nurse, before you go write a list of your symptoms (including feeling depressed) and a list if questions. I did it because my head was so fuzzy when my bloods were high, and the GP was chuffed because it made the consultation easier! Ask for the test results, a print out of your blood results and of your scan results. That will prompt the doc to check that they have seen them. Sometimes we patients have to give these poor over worked, knackered doctors a nudge in the right direction (ha ha). I know it feels like climbing a mountain right now, but you needed to get this sorted. Take care if yourself Sue xxxxx
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I have just had some reasonably good news - I have fibriods , probably had them for years, causing uneccessary bleeding,miscarriages, leaking bladder pain below waiste and legs etc. Because I am going thro menopause I may not need an op, according to the consultants junior. Yet to be confirmed. But it's worth a bottle of bubbly and none of it is due to diabetes.
 
My letter from A&E admittance was copied and sent in post to me....and my diabetic consultant does this too.

Every letter has a mistake. Last letter said I had retinopathy. The letter before said I took statins....
So even at base level facts aren't being recorded correctly. I sneaked a look at my A&E file when admitted and found yhat they had recorded I was a type 2 not type 1!! So I have sent a complaint about this and other matters to PALs st my hospital. As A&E or the admittance ward did not even record my blood levels and showed no concern about my levels dropping when I told them. I knew they did not care about my levels dropping which is why I looked at my notes...

Also people are not aware that a letter from a Consultant in my case is seen by a GP but a clerk puts notes on the system. The letter is scanned....so it is logged but the interpretaion and the data from it is manually keyed in by a GP clerk..
 
brenda walker said:
I have just had some reasonably good news - I have fibriods , probably had them for years, causing uneccessary bleeding,miscarriages, leaking bladder pain below waiste and legs etc. Because I am going thro menopause I may not need an op, according to the consultants junior. Yet to be confirmed. But it's worth a bottle of bubbly and none of it is due to diabetes.
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Glad they have identified your problem and can put your mind at rest at last....
 
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