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Do you think this is a good idea?

  • No - if i am ill i want to see my doctor.

  • Yes - the receptionist can decide who i see.


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People just need to start THINKING before running to their GPs/A&E, as that's not something that is going to happen any time soon, then yeah triage is needed, just not by a receptionist... There are already enough cases of life threatening illness going undetected by GPs, without receptionists getting more involved too..

So, no vote on the poll from me, as I want option 3 "A nurse or Dr should triage who the Dr does or doesn't see, as 90% of people are apparently unable to judge this for themselves". :P


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I'm afraid the number of people who actually think about the consequences of their own actions is in decline, along with a sense of personal responsibility. People nowadays have more of a sense of entitlement to things whether its misplaced or not' i.e it's their 'right'. Use of the NHS is a classic example of this. And we'd all better get used to it, cos it will only get worse.
 
A ridiculous solution to a simple problem.
The problem is that doctors surgeries are overflowing with the feckless and the self entitled looking to get for free what they can buy over the counter at the local supermarket for pennies - and who couldn't care less that in doing so, they are racking up an enormous cost to the public purse and blocking working people from seeing their GP.
A better solution is to completely get rid of "free" prescriptions and make everybody pay a nominal charge that is higher than the price of buying over the counter at the pharmacy - say �£2 per item.

Waiting in the queue at the docs i stood behind a chap who was submitting a prescription request for paracetamol, and he had a taxi outside waiting on the meter??? FFS if you can afford to travel by taxi cab you can buy a 20p pack of paracetamol for yourself and save the nhs all the bloody admin and expense surely??

the NHS has some 'shoot yourself in the foot' policies still for example i take asprin daily post heart issues along with a few prescription meds, the asprin appears on my repeat prescription forms even after i have requested it pulled as its cheaper for both the nhs and i if i source that myself.. and even with the best will in the world i have on occasion submitted the request without crossing out the asprin.. the reason it cant be pulled is its part of my prescription/ record regardless of where i get it from?? :doh:
 
I was in casualty ages ago with my youngest who had a massive temp and sickness having being sent by NHS direct.
As usual it was bedlam but they pulled out all the stops and he got seen quickly.
Anyhow while I was waiting some chap of what sounded like eastern European origin walked in and demanded injections for his foreign holidays! They told him to do one basically but he kicked up a right stink,they have a resident copper on duty who did nowt,they then took him through to be seen!!
 
Gunge,only you buddy,only you 😂

I tell you what, it's not only him. @gunge and I are not prone to agreeing much in The Snug, but whe it comes to ear wax he's onto a winner. I'm also prone to this and I do something pretty similar. Personally I go for a good blast with the shower head once I've softened it up instead of the homemade syringe but I can see it would be effective.
 
I agree with this. There are so many 3 sector agencies that can help with so many things. Half the stuff gp' s see aren't really needed. Don't see an issue telling a receptionist my issue, they can see all my details on the computer anyway
 
Don't see an issue telling a receptionist my issue

There's the slight problem that a receptionist with 3 GCSEs and half a day's training doing triage might miss your cancer diagnosis or your kid's sepsis and send you home with instructions for an early night and a paracetamol.
 
There's the slight problem that a receptionist with 3 GCSEs and half a day's training doing triage might miss your cancer diagnosis or your kid's sepsis and send you home with instructions for an early night and a paracetamol.

The truth is so could your gp. My little girl had internal bleeding when we took her a couple of weeks ago. Gp said monitor it (passing blood) for two weeks. Days later she was receiving a life saving infusion.
 
We were watching one of those GP surgery programmes the other day. A fair skinned woman came in to see her GP, looking a little pink. Turns out she was out in the sun and got a little burnt. Is there anything I can do to prevent this she asks, yes avoid the sun or use sun cream. What a waste of the GP’s time!


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Here's a true story for you.

My mum a few years back when to the Drs with a lesion on her face. GP misdiagnosed it and gave her some cream to put on it. Few months later it finally got diagnosed as skin cancer, and was removed with surgery.

Now, just imagine that she had been triaged by a receptionist, how much longer do you think that correct diagnoses would have taken? I certainly wouldn't trust the receptionist at our GPs, they'd turn everybody away if they could get away with it, they HATE having to do any work. :lol:

This is my big concern. Ever layer you add to the system, you increase the chance of something important getting completely missed. Too often GPs fail to refer to a specialist when they should have, imagine a 3rd layer of a completely unqualified person judging whether you even need to see a GP... Sure something needs doing, but this is downright dangerous. I know of surgeries where your first appointment for something you get seen by the practice nurse first, they then decide if you need a follow up with a GP. A far better system, but heh that'd cost more....
 
I once had to see a nurse as it was near impossible to get a GP appointment and I think it worked out better as she booked several blood tests and a specialist and got to the bottom of it very quickly, I don't know but I suspect if I had seen a GP they would have tried to diagnosed it themselves and it would have taken longer. Or it could be the nurse only did all this as she knew there were no GP appointments.
 

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