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Gps Favouring Hospitals
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Any ideas why GP's surgeries should try and get their patients to go to one hospital rather than another? We have two, almost equidistant 'big' hospitals. One is five miles through pleasantish urban roads, the other is five miles down the North Circular, through an industrial estate, down a notoriously jammed-up road.
We have been going to the more local hospital for 40 years, but lately the GP has been making appointments at the other one, which we then either have to attend, or spend time and effort getting switched.
Do they get referral money? The 'other' hospital is a huge flagship hospital, architect-designed (and you know what THAT means for the poor *** trying to get round it). The treatment is the same, of course.
So why do GPs not just ask, "Where would you rather go?"
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We have been going to the more local hospital for 40 years, but lately the GP has been making appointments at the other one, which we then either have to attend, or spend time and effort getting switched.
Do they get referral money? The 'other' hospital is a huge flagship hospital, architect-designed (and you know what THAT means for the poor *** trying to get round it). The treatment is the same, of course.
So why do GPs not just ask, "Where would you rather go?"
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You see your GP for an opinion.diagnosis, treatment and management and the latter would involve to which hospital you should be referred.
The choice of that hospital would depend upon many factors based on your GP's experience, all in all to be of maximum benefit to his patient....in this case...YOU.
The choice of that hospital would depend upon many factors based on your GP's experience, all in all to be of maximum benefit to his patient....in this case...YOU.
If one has a right to choose how come, a few years back, the NHS kept sending me suggested appointment dates/times for the hospital that I had insisted was too far away, and which they'd agreed not to choose; and then them eventually lying, saying that I'd cancelled 3 appointments so they weren't going to offer another when we'd yet to agree on/accept even a first one ? Clearly this choice thing can't be true. Clearly they go out their way to not treat patients.
GP's now,apparently, do have to ask the patient if they have a preferred hospital to be referred to. Of course the doctorwill know if the hospital has the correct dept for the patient's needs. Last week I ws at The Royal Brompton Hospital, Fulham Rd. There were several nearer my home but could not do a Myocardio Perfusion.
I asked my GP for a referral to an Audiologist recently and stressed I did not wish to attend my nearest hospital St Helier Carshalton but would go to Queen Mary's Roehampton Audiology. The GP said her secretary would arrange it. A week later I received an appointment date for St Helier. I went to the Surgery and politely told her that I required the Audiology at Queen Marys.She replied that there was no Audiology Dept at Queen Marys. I informed her there most certainly is and my wife worked in Endoscopy next door to Audiology and had seen it. We compromised and I went to Epsom General Audiology.
The problem was Queen Mar's is part of the same Trust as Kingston hospital and if the secretary contacted Kingston they would of given me an appointment to their Audiology Dept at Queen Mary's.:-)
I asked my GP for a referral to an Audiologist recently and stressed I did not wish to attend my nearest hospital St Helier Carshalton but would go to Queen Mary's Roehampton Audiology. The GP said her secretary would arrange it. A week later I received an appointment date for St Helier. I went to the Surgery and politely told her that I required the Audiology at Queen Marys.She replied that there was no Audiology Dept at Queen Marys. I informed her there most certainly is and my wife worked in Endoscopy next door to Audiology and had seen it. We compromised and I went to Epsom General Audiology.
The problem was Queen Mar's is part of the same Trust as Kingston hospital and if the secretary contacted Kingston they would of given me an appointment to their Audiology Dept at Queen Mary's.:-)
Thanks sqad.
I suspect that the 'push' to get patients to go to the Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal might be to do with the tens (hundreds?) of millions the new building cost, and that now the Trust is making sure it's well used. It really is an awful place for a patient - huge, cavernous corridors that stretch for hundreds of yards, for very little reason. I (disabled, old, not too well) had to walk from one clinic (stuck on the end of the vast building) all the way to the other end to queue up for a prescription! No supplied wheelchairs, of course.
Very pretty, very 'designery', but useless. The sort of place designed by people who were never going to be sick, and probably never going to use it even if they were.
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I suspect that the 'push' to get patients to go to the Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal might be to do with the tens (hundreds?) of millions the new building cost, and that now the Trust is making sure it's well used. It really is an awful place for a patient - huge, cavernous corridors that stretch for hundreds of yards, for very little reason. I (disabled, old, not too well) had to walk from one clinic (stuck on the end of the vast building) all the way to the other end to queue up for a prescription! No supplied wheelchairs, of course.
Very pretty, very 'designery', but useless. The sort of place designed by people who were never going to be sick, and probably never going to use it even if they were.
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