MEDICAL MATTERS

[Tizer]

He was meant to get another scan in March but nothing happened so he rang them last week to chase it up. " Oh sorry, Colin, you seem to have fallen through the net". Nothing has come of it yet. We despair.

Yes, the medics I saw didn't actually say `fallen through the net' but their facial expressions, sighs and behaviour showed it. Like me, they've been let down too.

[PanBiker]

I have recently been having side effect issues with some medication I have been prescribed. The info says you should stop taking the medication and discuss it with a doctor or prescribing professional. I rang the surgery this morning as it was Dr Davie who prescribed the meds after I had a discussion with the practice nurse. After a call back from the surgery I got a telephone consultation booked for next Monday with my own Doctor Hassan. Not actually seen him for at least 5 years, always had someone else or the nursing staff so that was a bit of a surprise! I am at the surgery next Monday anyway for a follow up blood test. This is the one that would have buggered my blood donation appointment for NHSBT which I moved to last week. It all seems like a bit of a juggling act recently.

[Wendyf]

At least you can still ring the surgery Ian!

[PanBiker]

Has Earby surgery converted full to E consultation? We were at an event there the other week to encourage it's use. I hasten to add that we were there in relation to Bosom Friends.

[Wendyf]

Yes completely, though I walked in to book a shingles jab a couple of weeks back.

[Wendyf]

Col has just been down to Earby Surgery for a diabetic foot check and he reports that the computerised booking in system wasn't working so people were having to book in via the receptionist. While he was in the waiting room an 85 year old woman spoke to the receptionist attempting to make an appointment and explaining that she couldn't cope with the e-consult system. She was told that it was the only way to make an appointment and couldn't she get family to do it for her. She was sent on her way and told to phone if she had any problems. Appalling.

[Gloria]

That’s awful.

[Stanley]

As you can imagine, that account is the worst news possible to me. They should change the description of the 'receptionists' to 'rejectionist' because that's what they appear to be there for. Dreadful!

[PanBiker]

Just a heads up, according to what I heard while at the venue the model employed at Earby surgery may be coming to be the norm.

[Sue]

One of my friends needed a repeat op to regulate her heart beat, they stop the heart and restart it. By the time she got the appointment about 4 months later they said SHE had waited too long and they can’t do it. She needed a hernia op which depended on the out come of futher heart tests. The results took 3 months to come through. She had had her preop for the hernia but had to call it off. Now they say they can’t do it because of her age and the fact that she never had the heart op way back last October. The outcome is she can’t walk any distance for pain and breathless ness. I won’t mention names .

[Sue]

Ps her surgery in wonderful, in the top ten of the whole of Greater Manchester, I think ours is in the bottom ten. I think there are 6000 surgeries. Seems a lot perhaps the figure is not that. Anyway the problem was not the surgery but probably the hospital admin

[Big Kev]

That's appalling, it must be so frustrating too.

[Stanley]

Perhaps this is going to be the common experience with the NHS from now on. Anyone who doesn't need elective surgery is lucky! It's perhaps going to be emergency treatment only.....

[Tizer]

A while ago I switched from the local pharmacy to Pharmacy2U online for my repeat scripts. It's worked well, with them popped through the letterbox a few days after me ordering them, sometimes on a Saturday too. But I've just been let down. On Wednesday last week I attended one of my ongoing appointments dealing with my skin lesions and graft. They prescribed a special cream, asked me where to send the script and I told them Pharmacy2U who later in the day sent me the usual email saying `Your order is now with our pharmacy team for checking and packing'. My next appointment was yesterday and they still hadn't delivered it. I couldn't find any way to contact them and it's only just now I've had an email saying it's on its way. I'm not impressed.

[Big Kev]

I couldn't find any way to contact them and it's only just now I've had an email saying it's on its way. I'm not impressed.

https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/help-and-s ... 3f1737bccf

[Stanley]

Since my meds became a regular item, 12 months duration up to July.... Well have behaved impeccably, I got this month's batch yesterday. If I had been adding odd things to it I doubt if they would have been as good.
Hard luck Peter. I hope they do better in future....

[Tizer]

I couldn't find any way to contact them and it's only just now I've had an email saying it's on its way. I'm not impressed.

https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/help-and-s ... 3f1737bccf

Thanks for sending me to that page again. When I found it I couldn't tick any of the boxes to show what I wanted and clicking on the entry didn't open a new page on the topic. But you've prompted me to look further and now I see that clicking on an entry then displays the details down below and I only see them if I scroll beyond the bottom of what I thought was the end of the page. On my Firefox and screen it looked as though the main page and its entries were all dead.

I'd already got the phone number but couldn't get a response after waiting a couple of times. I wish they had a chatbot, I don't have the patience for waiting while mind-numbing music plays!

And to add insult to injury the parcel delivery was two packages which seemed odd when I'd ordered only one, but that was Royal Mail at fault. The second parcel was from a different company and was for someone in a street with a similar name to ours!

[Stanley]

Sorry to hear you still had trouble Peter.
Where that system falls down is when you live in a district in which the PO doesn't deliver daily. I suspect that is the case in Barlick now....

[PanBiker]

Any meds I use, (and one is suspended at the moment) are repeats so its relatively easy to order in good time. regarding Barlicks postal service, I can't see that it has made great difference to delivery times. If I ask for a repeat on Monday it is actioned by Tuesday and normally delivered before Friday of the same week.Common medications though so no specials. Any ad hoc stuff that you may have to take such as antibiotics for infections I would get at the local chemist, I am lucky in that respect in that penicillin based AB's still work for me so are usually freely available.

[Stanley]

[Tripps]

Dr Nurse John Campbell had posted today an interesting talk about the relationship between mRNA "vaccines", and myocarditis - especially in younger men. I would say - watch it if you wish, and then make your own choice betwen the pharmaceutical industry, and the Government on the subject, or the published and peer reviewed science.

John Campbell mRNA and Myocarditis.

[Big Kev]

I'll have a look later

[Big Kev]

After a bit of research on the 'YouTube influencer' I chose to not watch.

[PanBiker]

Been taking Paracetamol for a couple of days. I seem to have pulled my back sometime earlier in the week and it's painful getting about! Left sciatic nerve by the feel of it. Don't know how I did it, not been lifting or anything like that. Need it to ease before our 4 hour flight on Tuesday afternoon. Aircraft seats aren't the most comfortable to spend a lot of time in. The analgesics at least let me function to some degree.

[Big Kev]

Been taking Paracetamol for a couple of days. I seem to have pulled my back sometime earlier in the week and it's painful getting about! Left sciatic nerve by the feel of it. Don't know how I did it, not been lifting or anything like that. Need it to ease before our 4 hour flight on Tuesday afternoon. Aircraft seats aren't the most comfortable to spend a lot of time in. The analgesics at least let me function to some degree.

I've found the anti inflammatory gel very good for back, neck, shoulder pain. The generic stuff, rather than the 'named' brands, from supermarkets is just as good.