Hausärzte wurden angewiesen, in dringenden Fällen Termine am selben Tag zu garantieren
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28vp0pkzro
Von topotaul
Hausärzte wurden angewiesen, in dringenden Fällen Termine am selben Tag zu garantieren
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28vp0pkzro
Von topotaul
4 Kommentare
what happens if everything becomes urgent
‚accident & emergency‘
GPs can even offer routine appointments over the course or the month. This seems like glossing over the fact that a lot of GPs are oversubscribed. My area is having 671 new homes built (half of which is now built and lived in). That’s a lot to add to a GP where you already strutgled to get an appointment.
If a case is that urgent, surely your point of call is A&E.
The challenge is always getting there before the local wrinklies and/or nutters and then past the receptionist(s).
Their raison d’être appears to be doing a ‘Bridge of Khazad-dûm’ with the normals that walk in needing actual help – “you cannot pass!!!”
But will talk for a fkn hour with this woman ‘cos she’s her sister’s neighbour. In a pinch, that person will get a sneaky check-up with the GP whilst every other mug has to follow procedure.
A significant issue around access to GP appointments involves frequent attenders. [30-50% of GP appointments are utilized by 10% of patients](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38902053/). On one end, you have someone who has never visited their doctor in five years and can’t seem to get an appointment. On the other, you have people with 200 appointments per year. This will likely just exacerbate this difference.
The recurrent theme with these political moves is to push for dissolving GP partnerships by making the services unsustainable.