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| UK Single Payer Healthcare, one million patients a week cannot get a GP appointment |
| 2017-07-09 |
| [Telegraph] One million patients a week cannot get appointments with GPs, amid the longest waiting times on record, new figures show. Doctors said they were working "flat out" but under "unsustainable" pressure, leaving "worrying" numbers of patients without any help. The NHS figures show the number waiting at least a week to see their GP has risen by 56 per cent in five years, with one in five now waiting this long. The pressures left 11.3 per cent of patients unable to get an appointment at all - a 27 per cent rise since 2012. This amounts to around 47 million occasions on which patients attempted but failed to secure help from their GP, forcing them to give up, try again later or turn to Accident & Emergency departments. Rising numbers of patients struggled to even get through on the phone, with 27.8 per cent of those polled citing difficulties, compared with 18.5 per cent in 2012. Patients’ groups last night said the situation was "frightening," putting the vulnerable at grave risk of ending up in hospital for want of basic care. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 May the NHS can appoint "family coroners" to take care of those who can't be seen in time. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-07-09 13:26 |
| #5 Then there was the ER I used to work at: someone called our phone from outside the hospital & asked to speak to the surgeon. Surgeon happened to be in the OR,and the caller was told that. A few minutes later the surgeon's house had a break-in & was burgled. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-07-09 13:25 |
| #4 and when you do you get 5 mins of third line PC support equivalent. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-07-09 13:04 |
| #3 I'm sure that all the people who want single payer here in the US have an answer for this. /sarc |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-09 12:50 |
| #2 Isn't the NHS one of the largest employers in the world, like, behind the Chinese army and the Indian railway system? Good luck pushing for change, Mr. and Ms. UK Politician. |
| Posted by: Harry Elminesing1650 2017-07-09 08:56 |
| #1 ...but, but everyone is covered. Now don't we feel better about ourselves. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-09 08:01 |