"The Public Treat You As Slaves" says Private GP Laurence Gerlis on NHS GP and Service 

Im in complete agreement with you in them days the doctors also came to see you at home sometimes

​@@barrygriffiths4530because they genuinely cared about their patients back then!

​@@CalmlocketIt's true. The lack of continuity is dangerous. Different people changing your tablets causes side effects, which may require a trip to A and E, or further outpatient tests. Which actually costs the NHS more money.

Tories put paid to that

the middle class government workers have gone awol , but they still collecting the dough

They get paid for every test they do, so nurses very busy but gp not. It’s time to adopt Australian technique where gp gets paid per patient seen.

​@@mannie7028then they would just see as many as possible to increase their wages and the patients would get less time for a consultation.

Ditto

@@wideye2901 It's not easy for sure.

U lucky u got through 😂

I haven't even been able to do that. I usually get a nurse or a locum on the phone.

And nothing is wrong with you. Seen your solicitor recently?

That’s capitalism, not socialism. If it was socialism they would care.

@@franklouie3243 Rubbish. How exactly are the NHS making ‘capitol’? It’s a socialist aspect of our capitalist nation. Socialism has nothing to do with caring. The most evil people on earth have enforced either socialist or communist values (Stalin & Hitler). In a capitalist health system care would be much higher. Do you understand why? Because people will spend their hard earned money on the systems which provide the best care. It really is that simple. Personally I think the NHS should be dropped like a hot potato, it’s just a magnet for migrants who want free medical care at the British taxpayers expense. Freeloaders!

Er we pay for the service through our taxes, the NHS stands for a national health service funded through the government that’s a socialist idea not capitalism, if it was capitalism we would be paying at the point of service. So you’re wrong frank.

If it was socialism they would care??! Lmao!! What utter rubbish.

If you have cash to do so I’d get on it asap!. Do not trust our health services.

​​​@@Calmlocketand gp,s, doctors and dentists on standby for the boat economic scroungers.

Greedy the lot of them, they haven’t got a clue how the average person lives, as they happen to be on money that the average person can only dream of,I’m sickened of the lot of them.and this doctor is talking a lot of rubbish.i don’t know

Similar stories of malpractice in my family. Lost my mum due o a useless GP. After the covid debacle and them getting £35 for every clot shot they manipulated the public into getting. I loathe them.

@@buildertrash4102 Me too, friend. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Ive been sat in the doctors only person in there and they was turning everyone down who called up for an appointment on a few occasions there doing it to try force us to accept privatisation

It is like any system that can be ‘played’. There are people who know how to use it, like the benefit system. Ordinary people who are polite and not pushy enough to insist are falling by the wayside and stand no chance. Cannot get on the first rung, no appointments.

@@joyelmes7814 Actually my doctor directly told me that I am known to only ask for appointments when I need one so I tend to get taken more seriously than a "Revolving door patient" when I ask for them. However I still have to call before 10am for the " urgent bookings" to stand a chance which is literally the only way to get an appointment these days. But again I still feel you should only get one free appointment per month accept ongoing conditions or if the doctor asks to see you again for a follow up appointment and you should have to pay if you aren't actually in need of a doctor or you can just go to the chemist for your problem. As again my doctor told me many patients come for stupid things like headaches, colds, stomach aches or hay-fever you don't need a doctor for these a visit to the chemist will sort you out or phoning the 111 medical advice line. True some of the conditions I mentioned could be a symptom of something worse for example my "Headaches" were actually migraines and regular painkillers don't really help much most of the time so I needed brain scans and test for epilepsy to find out if there was something else causing them luckily there wasn't they were just cause by my senory modulation disorder during sensory overload like loud or high pitched noises overwhelming my brain as my hearing is extremely sensitive due to my condition now knowing this I can avoid this and reduce the amount of migraines I get.

Privatisation just means you pay more alot more 😊

@@petersmith2522 I would rather not privatisation I propaly can’t afford it but be honest it has become a bottomless pit tories or labour have failed over the years

@@terryolekszy9486 its deliberate they have been making it a disaster in order to justify selling it to private investors in other countries look at water we are all paying people in other countries now everytime we pay our water bills

Thats bullshit. GP do 90% of the NHS work with less than 10% of the funds. GPs get paid £160 roughly per patient on their register for an entire year, which is grossly low. Try getting a private GP appointment and work out how much it would cost you for a year to see your GP. On top of that, we dont have enough drs because we dont treat them as well as other countries do, so they leave. We have 2000 less GPs than 2015. We will end up with no doctors, the NHS will break, and you will have to go private for everything. Dont blame the drs blame the Tory gov, we had the best healthcare back in 2010-2011.

Mind you, they have to pay staff, building costs, equipments, insurance, rents, bills, etc. If GPs were making so much profit why are they leaving? Why do we have less and less GPs in the UK every year? Obviously the conditions are trash for drs

@@goranh2357 The NHS has been failing badly for 30 years. The Govt. has poured billions into the NHS over the last 3/4 years and nothing changes. Far too much waste, bad practice, and millions spent on useless woke appointments which add absolutely nothing to patient care. Add to which the population increasing very quickly through the huge rise in immigration and you have the pefect storm. Don't forget no other country in the world funds it's health service through taxation only for all health demands. Many countries have a combination of taxation, private funding, restrictive number of procedures of health covered by taxation. The doctors have huge salaries and luxury pensions which most people can only dream of. Many GPs no longer see patients face to face at all. I remember the days when GPs did evenings, weekends and home visits. Blair gave them a pay rise and all of those services were dropped, using telephone services, locums or if desperate you had to get yourself to the local A&E instead. Thousands of GPs only work a 3 or 4 day week, no evening/ weekends. The NHS has been broken for a long time and doctors/nurses on strike is the final death knell. This is a deliberate ploy by the BMA to bring the Govt down and don't tell me someone on £150,000 a year is badly off.

@@Goldenlion148 you think GPs are on 150k? For basic 37-40hrs a week? Other countries pay more than 150k for their basic normal hrs. Less work and jobs. No doctor is paid as much as other peer countries pay them, and they have less stressful working environments. No one would leave the NHS if the other countries were not better. Its appalling conditions. And for your info GPs are paid far less than 150k in the UK.

@@Goldenlion148 just so you know how underfunded the NHS is. The French with the same size economy as ours, spend 50billion more than us on healthcare. The Germans spend 70billion more than us. We have gone from 240k beds in NHS, to 150k. We have half the doctors we need compare to other peer countries. Same goes for Nurses. When the staff in NHS are telling you, we are under funded we best believe it. The tories are raping the NHS and creating opportunities for their Eton mates to make money.

Hypochondriasas is actually a mental illness. Should be seen by a psychiatrist. As for pensioners, guess what??? They get old and they get sick. Nothing surprising. You will too.