[Closed] GPs have failed agan!

Complain in writing. If unhappy with that response refer to PALS.

I do hope your mother recovers, such a worry for you.

Speak to the GP, then practice manager, then ask the pm who to speak to next if thus is unsatisfactory....
The pct is no longer here ( who gps used be be 'under') so get contact details from the pm.
Bet of luck.

DrP

Thanks, both of you.

I have been told there is ring fenced funds for people deteriorating as they reach this sort of health. It's called CHF?

I've googled it and it does not come up in the search. Any ideas what it is?

Thanks again, I am enormously grateful.

Is it a single GP practice? If so, you're at the mercy of the attendance whims of the GP. If not, then as an urgent matter, you'd ask for whoever was in the building. I tend to bypass GPs for all but the most trivial and non-urgent stuff anyhow, as this is what tends to happen.

TBH, if it's a sudden event, I'm more surprised that she didn't get sent straight to A&E in the first place to exclude the possibility of another stroke.

Hope she's on the mend now.

In my experience of dealing with GPs in business, 90% of them are solely concerned with money. We offer a service that they should all be taking up but they wont unless the money doesn't come out of their pockets.
On a medical side my most major illness ended up with me spending 7 days in hospital because my GP didn't see what was wrong with me and I ended up taking myself to A&E.
Frankly I have little respect for the overpaid *****.
Sorry DrP, I'd like to think you're different.

From Dr Rant's FB page, in case people didn't already know...

[i]Dear patients. I have no idea who has taken over out-of-hours. I think 111 is still afloat, but I've had no official communication. I'd advise you to contact the PCT, but they no longer exist. I've phoned the 'help-desk' - it should more accurately be described as a 'desk'. And apparently, I'm in charge. Or, to summarise, following the 1st April changes, no-one has a ****ing clue what's going on.

Welcome to the Brave New World of the NHS.[/i]

That was April 3rd. I don't know what's happened since.

Continuing Healthcare or CHC is what I think you mean by this.

You should be able to find the contact details if you google CHC and your area.

These assessments used to be done by the PCT, but the teams will still exist

I used to do these assessments as part of my job. Could provide done advice by email if it would help.

Ianfitz yes please!

My mail address is in my profile

I'll update on her health once I'm back in the AMU this morning.

Thank you all so very much. Very very helpful.

It was another stroke, which is not good, she is safe now and I can't fault the hospital's care and consideration.

Thanks for your help.

a fellow joinerr i heard of, had a killing headache behind his eye, went to gp, who said nothing wrong just need a sight test at optician probably just eye strain or geting older, he went to opticician, who sent him to a and e by ambulance, a nail from a nail gun had hit him on the head and was stuck behind his eye.

[i]a nail from a nail gun had hit him on the head and was stuck behind his eye[/i]

had he mentioned the possibility that he had a nail in his head to his gp?

a nail from a nail gun had hit him on the head and was stuck behind his eye.

My youngest keeps getting splitting headaches, getting the metal detector out as soon as I get home!

Diagnosis is all in the history taking. "Any recent trauma to the area?"
"No doctor".
"Thus I conclude the root of your pain is a high pressure steel projectile inbedded in the tissue behind your eye, with no external evidence. Now, away from my office while I go and diagnose heart attacks by smell alone!"

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Gosh:
[i]
A construction worker went to the dentist complaining of a toothache in his upper jaw. What the dentist found was a real shocker: the man had a large nail embedded in his skull. Apparently and amazingly, he’d fired the nail into himself with a high-power nail gun without even realizing it.[/i]

cynic-al, earlier, after trying some self improvement;

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How do you swallow a spoon and not realise it?

How do you swallow a spoon and not realise it?

They thought there was no spoon.

Hope mother recovers soon Andy.

buzz lightyear is my second favourite. I'd post a pic but I can't so see here
http://www.vyperlook.com/odd-strange/bizarre-foreign-objects-found-in-human-bodies
and scroll down.

safe for my work. possibly not for everyone's.

OK, the short version - I was sent home to come back later. Three hours later the GP realised I'd had a mini-stroke and AF and was attended to until the big yellow van arrived to take me in. I didn't get the blue lights though. If it ever happens again I'll dial 999 myself for my own Ambo ride.

Did the joiner have his hard hat stuck to his head?