The angry thread

[Newportnobby]

We had 32 deg C yesterday. Are you near that in F?

[Bealman]

Oh dear! You lot must be melting! 31 degrees? We'd be shivering in Chez Bealman!

I recorded 41 degrees one January day a few years back.

[Graham]

31 is comfortable, 41 a pain, above that awful.

[Bealman]

Ooops I underestimated that January day...

[cmason]

Not too bad here today - I was out on the water training yesterday and today ( Dragon Boat ) - only 30degrees and nicely overcast today ( yesterday was warmer around 32 with direct sunshine ). We have a big race next week in Osaka however the forecast there is still nice and low at 32C. It doesn't really get super hot hear until next month. Last year it got over 41C in several places.

[Newportnobby]

It was always a sod of a job to ring the doctors to get an appointment. Lines not open until 08.00 then you find you're 18th in the queue (how does that happen?).
No internet bookings. I use the Patient Access website but really can only order repeat prescriptions as my GPs surgery doesn't allow contact off that site.

Now they've changed things again. To get an appointment you have to go to the surgery website and fill in a 'triage form'. If you're incapable of doing this you can call the surgery and the receptionist/telephonist will do that for you. You cannot ask her to make an appointment. Oh, and they are now called 'care navigators'.
What the hell kind or world are we living in?

The doctor's surgery obviously does not want their pristine waiting room to be filled up with oiks with maladies, nor for their 'care navigators' to actually do any work. If it wasn't for the fact my GP is quite a decent one I'd tell 'em where to stick it all and go elsewhere, but even that could be leaping from frying pan into fire
Grrrrrr

[Dorsetmike]

My GP is also useless, known as the pill pushers. Now if I have something needing a visit I have to email or phone the Dorset NHS. I'm 92 and now registered "housebound". In over 12 years with this GP I've only managed to get 2 doctors visits both times by a male locum, only saw a male doctor at the surgery one time and he was a locum.
The 2 male doctors who own/manage the practice, work out of different premises on the other side of town - never seen either of them, their local premises are staffed by all women GPs apart from occasional locums; the only time I was "happy" to have a female GP was for a prostate exam, the ladies have smaller fingers!!