Disgraceful lack of care from the NHS

A LADY rang her local medical practice to ask for help for her husband who’d had a fall. Although they live within walking distance, the surgery refused to attend and told her to send for an ambulance.

When it arrived, several hours later, the crew were annoyed as he didn’t need hospitalisation; they said GPs are continually doing this sort of thing, and it is wasting ambulance time.

A practice has sent texts to all of their patients, telling them not to try to make an appointment because they have two of their clinical staff ill. Will the others sit around doing nothing until those two return? A lady had a suspected stroke. Her husband took her to the nearby surgery but they refused to see her and told him to take her to hospital.

There is a TV advert, telling us that the faster stroke victims are treated, the better their chances of recovery. This refusal could have cost the lady her life but apparently the surgery didn’t care about that.

As reported in the Derby Telegraph, a teenage girl was unable to see her GP and ended up spending 51 days in intensive care, which could probably have been avoided if she’d had the urgent response her condition needed.

Not only did this put her life in danger, but it was also a massive waste of NHS money.

A coroner has been reported as saying that deaths have been caused by the inability of the patients concerned to get a GP appointment, and yet the GMC says this system of non-care is here to stay. What an absolute disgrace!

At first, this state of affairs was blamed on the coronavirus situation. However, as the situation improved, the GPs’ lack of care did not.

The Royal Derby Hospital has more than 1,200 beds; they have never had more than 200 virus patients at any one time, which is certainly not my vision of being “stretched to breaking point”, as they claim, and for a period in the summer they had no such patients at all. The current figure is about 70 virus patients for the entire trust, spread across five hospitals in two counties.

This cannot in any way be used as an excuse for GPs to refuse to see their patients, but that is exactly what is happening.

Can anyone explain to me what GPs have actually been doing during this crisis.

And why they seem to think that there is only one disease, condition or injury that is worth all their attention?

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