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Just in case anyone is still labouring under the misapprehension that Ireland is a clod-hopping, potato-eating, poor relation of the UK ...
I have just had a call from our local GP practice - inviting us both for our Covid booster jabs on Tuesday evening - they will be working late every night until all the over 60s are jabbed.
The crucial thing is that this is not unusual - it's just the way things work here. Can anyone in the UK imagine getting that call at 17:55 on a Sunday teatime - from a practice manager working unpaid overtime because "it needs to be done".
GP practice here is *not* a money-making enterprise hiding behind incomprehensible (and usually engaged) phone systems - where, even if you overcome the phone challenge, you then meet receptionists trained in customer care by Attila the Hun.
It's run by real people who know your first names and genuinely want to make the system work for you.
All through Covid times, we've always got through to a real person - never waiting more than a few minutes - and always been offered our choice of phone or F2F appointment on the same day as we called - just once it was the day after (but I had said it wasn't urgent).
Secondary Care here can be (as in the UK) a bit of a lottery in terms of waiting times and the quality of the service at the Hospitals - but Primary Care is just brilliant.
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I have just had a call from our local GP practice - inviting us both for our Covid booster jabs on Tuesday evening - they will be working late every night until all the over 60s are jabbed.
The crucial thing is that this is not unusual - it's just the way things work here. Can anyone in the UK imagine getting that call at 17:55 on a Sunday teatime - from a practice manager working unpaid overtime because "it needs to be done".
GP practice here is *not* a money-making enterprise hiding behind incomprehensible (and usually engaged) phone systems - where, even if you overcome the phone challenge, you then meet receptionists trained in customer care by Attila the Hun.
It's run by real people who know your first names and genuinely want to make the system work for you.
All through Covid times, we've always got through to a real person - never waiting more than a few minutes - and always been offered our choice of phone or F2F appointment on the same day as we called - just once it was the day after (but I had said it wasn't urgent).
Secondary Care here can be (as in the UK) a bit of a lottery in terms of waiting times and the quality of the service at the Hospitals - but Primary Care is just brilliant.
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I can't praise our rural practice enough. The way they stepped up and organised the first lot of jabs was amazing. The organisation at the surgery was really well done.
And you still eat potatoes. It was a standing joke with ummm that she did spuds with everything.
Unfortunately my parents' practice is a disorganised, unhelpful, bureaucratic shower of ****. They ought to eat more spuds and drink more poteen.
And you still eat potatoes. It was a standing joke with ummm that she did spuds with everything.
Unfortunately my parents' practice is a disorganised, unhelpful, bureaucratic shower of ****. They ought to eat more spuds and drink more poteen.
maybe you live under a different government ... when face to face appointments were first cut back here, the health secretary of the day, well known funnyman Tony Hancock, announced this as the dawn of a new service where everybody would be zooming all day and nobody would have to waste a GP's time by seeing him/her. So GPs are doing their best to obey orders whether they agree with them or not.
This is apart from the personpower problems caused by retirements, overwork, underinvestment and so on. The present Health Secretary's plan is to name and shame GPs ... sorry, to "provide transparency" ... about failing to obey the latest orders, which appear to contradict previous ones.
I feel sure this will encourage more young people to take up general practice.
This is apart from the personpower problems caused by retirements, overwork, underinvestment and so on. The present Health Secretary's plan is to name and shame GPs ... sorry, to "provide transparency" ... about failing to obey the latest orders, which appear to contradict previous ones.
I feel sure this will encourage more young people to take up general practice.
Dave is fast learning the folklore I grew up with, Ducksie. When we bought this house and land first thing I told him was never, ever touch that fairy tree.
He also now knows that if we're out walking at night and he gets lost he's to turn his coat inside out or the fairies will take him.
Never must he get close enough to a window at night to look in or those inside will see the face of the devil looking in.
Do you think I spent too much of my childhood up in Mayo with the Granny?.... ;-)
He also now knows that if we're out walking at night and he gets lost he's to turn his coat inside out or the fairies will take him.
Never must he get close enough to a window at night to look in or those inside will see the face of the devil looking in.
Do you think I spent too much of my childhood up in Mayo with the Granny?.... ;-)
did you remind him gness, on way home from pub, only walk in middle of the road, he'll meet no evil there (dunno about the cars though haha ) and never pick up a random comb, he'll draw the banshee to the house ;)
BM - the GP's here are considered sole traders or self employed they are not connected to the health system as such as I think UK GP's are, they rule themselves and do a good job of it (through the IMO - they're trade union)
BM - the GP's here are considered sole traders or self employed they are not connected to the health system as such as I think UK GP's are, they rule themselves and do a good job of it (through the IMO - they're trade union)
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