Getting a GP appointment is very difficult
Getting a GP appointment is very difficult. Even when the doctor sends a text to say he wants to see me, I'm the one who has to phone the surgery at 8am and take a chance of seeing just any doctor and at any surgery in the group - the latest fiasco was being offered appointments any time on a Saturday but on the other side of Birmingham. I have no access to a car. Follow up with the same doctor seems impossible so I have to start explaining things from the beginning. For some people it does not matter, if they go with something different and acute each time. I have chronic conditions and it's not good enough to say that any doctor can read my notes. I saw a doctor last year but cannot get a follow up appointment after the hospital appointment he sent me to. I cannot discuss the latest drugs. I want to see (not just speak to) my doctor but I can't face the rigmarole.