Patients in England want right to see GPs with 24 hours enshrined in NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/17/patients-england-want-right-to-see-gps-with-24-hours-enshrined-nhs-survey
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Patients in England want right to see GPs with 24 hours enshrined in NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/17/patients-england-want-right-to-see-gps-with-24-hours-enshrined-nhs-survey
Posted by Fox_9810
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What I don’t understand is we cap how many doctors we train and so turn down many excellently qualified candidates each year because there’s not enough space. Why not build a “University of Medicine” that just trains doctors/nurses/dentists and other such stuff and fill our ranks with those trainees rather than sending them to study biochemistry
Lmao 🤣 and the money from this is coming from where? Most deluded request I’ve seen today. Totally admirable and yes it is completely the right thing to want but in the current climate – completely unachievable.
Yeah and I want my right to a above inflation payrise enshrined but it ain’t gunna happen
People in this thread dismissing it as impossible.
But why not have it as an aspiration and work towards this as a goal? Wouldn’t it be fantastic? Why don’t have even any hope at all for it?
You can see a GP same day.
Pay £60.
If you want a free appointment, so do 100s of others, it is an impossible situation.
Get rid of the receptionists, we know they’re hoarding all the appointments.
Calling something a right or making it a law doesn’t make it immune to scarcity.
Perhaps it’s only me, but why do you need to see a GP in 24hrs? Of course people should be seen in a reasonable timeframe, but 24 hrs seems excessive. If it’s an emergency isn’t that the role of A&E? I go to the doctor less often than once a year, so maybe I a missing something.
That’s impossible under the current reality, we have a much larger older generation, more people living longer with chronic health conditions and mass immigration all taking up too much bandwidth, coupled with a shrinking tax base.
If we want functioning public services again, migration will have to be cut dramatically and the elderly wealthy will have to fork out through taxation/or we put in a policy of free healthcare for under 65s only.
We’ll also need to slash planning regulation to get more hospitals built, however as we all know, nothing will be done.
Speaking as a receptionist at an extremely busy GP surgery: not a chance.
By _9.30 am_ on some days, I am telling callers to phone us tomorrow because all slots have been taken, both on the day and in advance. These are patients who will have been waiting in the phone queue for over an hour.
I spend most of my time apologising.
How much would such a policy cost and what department do they want to take the money from to pay for it?
The Modern General Practice Access Model allows this. NHS England are pushing and funding practices to move to this model. The problem is when they do local media and even national media slaughter them with false information in articles and ridiculous quotes from patients who don’t understand the model, so it puts practices off.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/national-general-practice-improvement-programme/modern-general-practice-model/
Example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pe0e897wo