Having been very ill with sickness and diarrhoea for 7 days I contacted the surgery , a sample was sent to hospital and a few days later I received a text to contact the surgery to make an appointment about the results , by then I had been ill for two weeks , I was told I would have to wait another 5 days for a phone consultation even though they had my results , I explained how ill I now was but 5 days was the soonest , they had appointments the next day but wouldn’t give me one unless I rang in the morning , by then I got the nhs app and looked at my results I had food poisoning, 35 times I rang in the morning before finally getting in the queue, you are told ring later and cut off each time and if you ring later as advised there are no appointments left that day , I finally got a phone consultation and was told I needed antibiotics which helped within two days , if I’d listed to them and taken the appointment given I would have been very ill for another 7 days making it over 3 weeks of food poisoning , the appointment system puts people’s health at risk and leaves them Ill for longer than need be , I will now be moving to another Doctors.
"Appointments with a Doctor are near impossible "
About: The Moir Medical Centre The Moir Medical Centre Nottingham NG10 1QQ
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