Is the NHS turning into the National Hiding Service when we want to see our GP?

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While writing about GPs there is a good line by Times columnist Clare Foges, a former No.10 speechwriter for David Cameron, in which she refers to the NHS as the National Hiding Service.

She is raising the mammoth issue of our age; Are we ever going to see our doctor again?

Face-to-face appointments are running at 57% compared with 80% pre-pandemic and Ms Foges tells a story about an elderly patient who contacted his GP and was told to send a photo of the infection.

On the basis of the picture he was prescribed antibiotics. Weeks later when it had not cleared up he asked for an urgent face-to-face.
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For whatever reason that was not possible. Eventually he begged for a slot and the clinic agreed.

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He was biopsied and yes it was a cancerous lesion that was now inoperable thanks to the delay. A quite shocking anecdote and I do hope that practice hangs its head in shame.

On the GPs side they say that it’s an Amazon Prime problem. Everybody wants everything, including clinical care, delivered immediately. Think that is true but what is also true is that many GPs are doing two 12-hour shifts and being paid the 60% of their £100,000-a-year money.

So there are not enough doctors to go around and with Covid in the air people are more conscious than ever of their health.

Surely if the NHS are going to keep its reputation it must be the right of the paying customer - and by God are we paying - that we can see our GP when reasonably asked. Right now that is not the case.

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