Vince Green Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 My 84 years old mother woke up with a bad pain in her stomach. So she phoned the Gp to see if she could get a home visit. The receptionist said she would have to go to A+E, when my mother said she didn't think she could get to A+E the receptionist said just phone for an ambulance. No wonder the NHS is in crisis! Back a few years ago she would have had a home visit and that would be that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph5172 Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I remember having home visits when i was a child. I remember it being the norm with everyone i knew. It just sort of stopped one day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKIE Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 problem the have is they have so many people on their books they can see 10 in the time it takes for 1 home visit.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I think an 84 year old lady with a bad pain in the stomach would get better and quicker treatment at A&E, than from a home visiting GP (who would probably send her to Hospital). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Blame labour for the debacle over GP contracts. Saying that, our out of hours GP sets himself up at our nearest hospital, you call teh out of hours service, they give you a time and you go there. More efficient than him going to lots of houses. If you are too ill to travel to there than you need A & E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I don't have any problems getting a home visit so maybe the situation varies from one surgery to another? On the other hand an 83 year old with any kind of serious pain ( and at 83 these people don't make a fuss over nothing) I would agree with getting to Hospital just to be safe. Hope she is well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Decrease in Doctors and an increase in population, blimey I feel like I'm a genius thinking that there's a problem arising. Or maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodp Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Decrease in Doctors and an increase in population, blimey I feel like I'm a genius thinking that there's a problem arising. Or maybe not. And a substantial increase in the me, me, me mob who would call GP's out for a headache. I mean, it's their God given right innit, all part of their benefits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 You only need watch something like "24 hours in A&E" to see how many idiots waste doctors time-in the last couple of episodes I watched - one woman had cut her finger and just needed a plaster while another turned up after hurting her finger in a collapsible chair-they should be fined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 And a substantial increase in the me, me, me mob who would call GP's out for a headache. I mean, it's their God given right innit, all part of their benefits. A friend of mine is a Sikh and he put an interesting slant on all of this. He pointed out that people who come from parts of the world where there is no affordable medical treatment view these things differently. In the Punjab, it would require a family conference before anyone was sent to see a doctor. Now they can go as often as they like, so they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I had the paramedics dump me in minor injuries when I broke my leg. My foot was hanging off and they left me in a wheel chair with no pain relief??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodp Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I had the paramedics dump me in minor injuries when I broke my leg. My foot was hanging off and they left me in a wheel chair with no pain relief??? Did it hurt ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Did it hurt ? It probably smarted a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I had the paramedics dump me in minor injuries when I broke my leg. My foot was hanging off and they left me in a wheel chair with no pain relief??? Did it hurt ? Naah Eees Ard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I know the OP's mother would be at the mercy of a random GP for a home visit, but I am far from convinced that A and E would be better. My mother in law was taken to Hope Hospital with stomach pains. A and E doctor said there was nothing wrong with her and she should go home. After some very harsh words, another doctor said she would be dead in three months - she was. My youngest visited Blackburn Hospital following a Motocross accident - broken shoulder blade. He was sent home, with his arm in a sling and told "it would knit together somehow". I know this was the case - I sat there listening to the cretin. We then visited Fairfield Hospital in Bury, when the bone started poking through his skin. He had a plate screwed in to mend the injury. Fairfield asked who had put the sling on - we said it was Blackburn. They refuse point blank to accept that this had happened. After further harsh words, they retracted their slanderous statement and did their job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted January 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 I know the OP's mother would be at the mercy of a random GP for a home visit, but I am far from convinced that A and E would be better. My mother in law was taken to Hope Hospital with stomach pains. A and E doctor said there was nothing wrong with her and she should go home. After some very harsh words, another doctor said she would be dead in three months - she was. My youngest visited Blackburn Hospital following a Motocross accident - broken shoulder blade. He was sent home, with his arm in a sling and told "it would knit together somehow". I know this was the case - I sat there listening to the cretin. We then visited Fairfield Hospital in Bury, when the bone started poking through his skin. He had a plate screwed in to mend the injury. Fairfield asked who had put the sling on - we said it was Blackburn. They refuse point blank to accept that this had happened. After further harsh words, they retracted their slanderous statement and did their job. Actually you are pretty much spot on because I didn't tell the end part of the story. She was taken to A+E but spent an afternoon on a trolley and was sent home again, told to take paracetomol if the pain came back but had no real investigation and only saw a lady doctor very briefly and she couldn't understand most of what the doctor was saying to her. I am at her flat now, she is still in bed and I am doing the dutiful son bit, we tried to get through to the GP this morning but gave up after 45 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Lol I think not in this case Naah Eees Ard Did it hurt ? Hmmm a little until the morphineIt probably smarted a bit. I past out twice .once on site when they lifted me and once in hospital trying to straighten it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 How did you do it TT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodp Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Kick starting a tractor ?? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 How did you do it TT? A 4' long 18" high 18" wide planter Concrete planter full or water/soil landed on my leg while lifting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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