Not yet mate, we seem to get post when Royal Mail remember to come down our road I will let you know when they arrive
Be a while yet Al last I saw was the local postie bitching like hell about rowing across the North sea in wintertime
My youngest works for the NHS and her biggest gripe is how long it takes to get test results through. Her view is that people can be seriously put at risk because of the delays.
He will never find our place then, I will set a flare off every afternoon at 5 just give hime a clue where we live
OFH, That is what concerns me, if it is something I would rather know now hopefully it is just their process that is at fault and if it was something they would surely call me?
Al, from what I understand from my daughter, if there is something that requires urgent attention, yes they do call people in. As she works in a hospital clinic the process could be different to a GP practice, but they seem to vary enormously. Both of my other daughters have had big difficulties when their children needed to see a doctor in Hardwicke, with over zealous reception staff.
Yes reception staff do seem to be a law unto themselves, I am sure they actually think that they are the Doctors
Funnily here I went to the docs about my right knee this morning , You have to phone up at 8am on the day! to be told can you ring back at 9 ,to be told can you gives us 10mins ,then finally got a 10am appointment! Got to go to stavanger for x rays!next week , will prob go on monday!
Did you have to do cartwheels whilst on the phone as well to get the appointment? Good luck with the x-ray
Take video! i know at our surgery if there's something wrong they get on the phone before you do...standard practice i think. good luck with that Norway..dare i say..'bout time too!
10 for dinner tonight, it was good but the day was stressy! It's very rare for one of my puddings to go wrong..i was gutted...did it twice! lol...it never really worked, i won't be using that recipe again! (MacArthur Park anyone? )
Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance Between the parted pages and were pressed, In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants What on earth were you cooking?
Morning all Thanks Al and pretty I have Thanks H and you may Mrs N has been nagging me to go for ages ,I have said when I have time ,and now I have Mrs N gone to UK early this morning , wont be hard to get the house into better nick than she left it but bless her she has had other things on her mind!)
Picking up on a couple of comments above about the apparent lack of urgency in the NHS~ I've said this before: I've had superb service from them. Maybe I was lucky. My cancer did take a long time to diagnose, but it was a tricky one. Once it had been diagnosed they swung into overdrive and everything happened very quickly. I was given express service. I was also fortunate to be treated at a Macmillan haemotology unit within MK hospital. And they are still looking after me very attentively; I have several post chemotherapy issues as some of you know, and I am seeing a neurologist and a physiotherapist as well as the haematologist, and they all communicate with one another. Overseeing all of this my GP works on my case tirelessly. As I say, maybe I'm lucky, but I don't like hearing the NHS being criticised. They've saved my life.
GG - glad to see that NHS is working for you, but our experience is slightly different. My youngest has suffered with abdominal pain and headaches for 3 years now - so severe that in that time he has missed approximately six months of schooling. At the beginning of his problem, our GP referred him to a paediatrician - it took 4 months to get an appointment, which was cancelled with 2 weeks prior notice and re-arranged for a month later. Not a good start, but it got worse. The 'specialist' prescribed laxatives for his headaches - adult strength for an 8 year old! - which were useless for him other than a cause of regular, major embarrassment. Whenever we requested a follow-up appointment, you guessed it, it came with a further 3 month wait. Six months ago came a change of specialist and a change of diagnosis - he now apparently suffers from both stomach and head migraines, and has been prescribed appropriate medication. Over the six months, the dosage has been increased threefold - yet last week he was off school with a headache so severe that even combing his hair was unbearable. So we rang to make an appointment with the paediatrician - and this time were told that, yes, we can see him earlier. 29th January Not impressed at all with NHS.
