Gps Favouring Hospitals

[bainbrig]

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?"

BB

[jno]

my doctor always asks if I have any preference, but I presume offers only hospitals that do whatever I need done. (Most likely scans and things.) I do ask not to be sent to the one I think you're referring to unless absolutely necessary. This is all fairly new. But ask your doctor why a particular hospital has been chosen: if the reason isn't purely medical, state your preference.

[anneasquith]

Bainbrig, ask at rec eption fo r the use of a wheel chair, or telephone beforehand requesting one for use when you are in the hospital .

[Peter Pedant]

a GP send you to a hospital he has trust in,
and a patient really does ask
oo why dont you send me to the really crap one?

[Baldric]

bainbrig, nothing, just nothing is good enough for you is it?

[bainbrig]

Tried that, anne (Bainbrig, ask at rec eption fo r the use of a wheel chair, or telephone beforehand requesting one for use when you are in the hospital).

Northwick Park: can’t reserve one, you take pot luck on there being one around reception. Usually there isn’t.

Central Middlesex: wait for a porter, “could be an hour”.

We hired one, £90 per fortnight, which was useful, but obviously expensive - and awkward, as Mrs B can’t get it in and out of the car without my help. My old pal Ted used to say “Don’t get old...”

[bainbrig]

PPedant. The last time you made a similarly ill-considered comment (about me querying a Moorfield consultant’s opinion), it turned out you were thoroughly wrong. Don’t you ever learn?

[bainbrig]

Baldric. Back to the youth club, where your silly remarks are appreciated by your fellow adolescents.

[Baldric]

Ok Granddad.

[Peter Pedant]

oh the moorfields consultant who was very famous and very wrong. yes - not one of my greatest moments I agree.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Question1622579.html

I did wonder if you meant Northwick Park this time round
once very famous - CRC etc 1970s
and then very bad - unbelievably so
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1488394/Hit-squad-sent-into-maternity-unit-after-the-deaths-of-10-patients.html

and I have to confess I DID think: BB doesnt WANT to be sent to Northwick Park does he?

but heigh ho - it is your life and not mine ....
[ I did muse at the time how hospital administrators are prepared to allow their hospitals reputation to be flushed darn vuh jarn. Ignoring one death is BAD but then ignoring the next nine seems ..... well.... unfortunate]

[woofgang]

PP people get sent to a local acute hospital here that has been filthy all the time had known it professionally (around 15 years of going in and out) ....not grubby in the corners but genuinely filthy. Successive Big Bosses got it on telly, put shops in the atrium, ran ad campaigns with posh "choose us" leaflets but none of them seemed able to get to grips with cleanliness and the carp food. I haven't set foot in there for going on 8 years now....I wouldn't mind betting it hasn't changed.

[bainbrig]

PP. I think all I really want is to have some say in the treatment of my own body (well, I got it into this state, didn’t I?) I don’t mind being wrong (just as well), and I love finding a medical expert who treats me like the intelligent layman that I am, and who puts me right. But so many think they should be believed and never questioned.

BB

[Peter Pedant]

// but none of them seemed able to get to grips with cleanliness and the carp food. //

one of my colleagues said to me: P this is the seventh report written saying follow David Daltons model at Hope Hospital
The board consider it and say o we cant do that !
( they then did it to his)

[bodeker]

Well we have no choice because they built a new super hospital think it cost 845 million , shut down all the other hospitals and 4 years later it has so many problems , people dying because of infections , very large pieces of cladding falling off the outside , surprised no-one was killed.
Dreadful place to visit , have to walk a long way to get to depts or lifts, just hate it and Im scared in case I have go back in there at any point !