Finding a Rheumatologist in Leeds

[Bromptonaut]

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I don't believe the first bold. At the time you went, the surgery would have been obliged to offer you an appointment within 48 hours. Could you not make it until 2 weeks time. .
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Is this about GP consultations??

The 48 hour standard is met with ease at home in northants. In fact Miss Bromp's ear infection was reported at 09:00 and by 10:25 she was in posession of a course of antibiotics.

Expererinces of colleagues living in London is that they're going to be recovered before they can get an appointment for anything acute.

 

[Bill Gates]

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Or the inclination frankly. If you are so manly and not scared of confrontation, why didn't you take this obvious failiure of the surgery with the practice manager or the PCT? Or PALS? Or the local paper, they would love a good 'Heart Attack victim forced to wait two weeks' story, you could even have a sad face picture in the local rag.

Anyway, let me know if you ever come down to the West Country on holiday, I'll drop by your caravan and we can discuss it further over a nice cool beer.
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I've got some ideas of my own. But thanks for the advice.

 

[ASC1951]

For a start look up ....itis, it is the latin suffix for inflammation.

If I may join you in rant/sarcasm mode for a moment - I had a Classics Scholarship, so I can tell you with complete authority that both arthros and the -itis suffix are Greek, not Latin. As any fule kno.

And don't go judging everyone's behaviour or motives by the standards of the patients you dealt with as a CPN.

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... Take the OP, I guess he is around 65 ish, he's retired, so he must have had a number of interventions with the NHS. .... Ask him his experience of the service though and what do we get? A crap GP 20 years ago, followed by a crap consultant, neither of who knew anything. Then we fast forward 20 years and he has another rubbish GP who cannot be bothered. .... ASC wants to go private to see a rheumotologist, where does that private consultant work 80% of the time?

So, maybe I am off on a bit of a rant, but I work for the NHS, and am pissed off that no-one appreciates the good work that is done, and how bloody annoying it is to only ever hear the negative.

Like I said, everyone has a tale of woe, but for each of them I reckon there is 50 to 100 stroies of success and good outcomes, but lets not discuss those eh? Lets denegrate the whole service as a pile of crap.
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61, actually. Maggot, if you read my posts again you will not find any criticism of the NHS or its staff; not even when I pointed out the earlier occasions on which I was misdiagnosed. I don't expect even the most skilled person to be right all the time, any more than I ever was, and it is particularly difficult where your data about pain has to come second hand from the patient.

If you want a criticism now, it would be the same as several other people on here: the NHS isn't good at the ailments or injuries of the abnormally fit, for the good reason that that isn't what it is designed or equipped to deal with. And that is precisely why I was willing to pay privately to see a consultant - of course it is an NHS consultant, but I can pick someone outside my area if that is best and if necessary I can see them more quickly than the NHS might be able to arrange.

Anyway, Dr Rashid this morning agrees that, notwithstanding normal blood tests, the widespread discomfort and apparent deterioration that I am now experiencing means that I should see a rheumatologist. NHS waiting time is up to 41 days, which is fine with me. Provided that's ok with you, of course, Maggot?