As a GP, what would be the one thing you would like to see happen to improve GP services?
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I'm glad to see your asking (As long as you really are a doc).
1) The first thing and I'm sure this goes for most is i get an appointment when i want an appointment not in 2 or 3 days time.
2) I know the receptionist are very busy and they have a hard job but the ones at my surgery want me to explain exactly what i want to see you about before letting me make an appointment.
3) Repeat prescriptions, they take to long to get and now you don't actually get a prescription they Email it to the chemist of your choice.
4) Better mags in the waiting rooms (HA-HA)
Keep up the good work..
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I'd like the option to see a practise nurse if I'm not sure if I need to bother the doctor, not have to explain to the receptionist about my symptoms.
I'd like a receptionist who doesn't look like she's bored out of her mind and wishes she was somewhere else. I don't imagine its a laugh a minute job, but the pharmacist at our local chemist is run off her feet and still manages to act with compassion and respect all day long; and guess what, everybody loves her.
Wow, expect a load of answers !!
Doctors taking more time to listen and appearing interested in your ills. Doctors being paid more by the government to look after the patients. Bigger practices. More car parking spaces. A special phone number for the young to ring when they have a health problem and someone on the end that can give advice. The surgery with it's own dispensary.
Firstly. Please could you have some sympathy for those of us who work full time and go to The Doctor once in a Blue Moon? When I call my Surgery there are so many pre booked appointments that it is often days until I can be seen.
Secondly: I know you work hard but so do I, and I HAVE to look interested in my Clients. Please say 'hello', please understand that most of us are quite bright and being patronised is quite hard to swallow.
Thirdly (sorry!): Your Receptionist doesn't need to know my business. If I say I need to see a Doctor, I do. I am a Grown up. I can work out for myself how urgent or non urgent that may be.
Fourthly: Thanks for asking!
Learn what alternatives work or advise / refer to natural treatments before prescribing drugs / surgery which will eventually require more visits due to side effect problems.
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