You've gotta laugh.

[BikerMatt]

What?!?! Bloody hell Matt, you must be so pissed off.

Yep it's a beauty!! I'm going to change GP's when this whole shitty mess is over. I'm seeing everything through with this muppet so i can lodge a serious complaint!

[MyNameIsTerry]

Sounds like the guy just can't be arsed. It's his damn referral and his patient.

It wouldn't surprise me if calling the other lot just got you referred back to your GP to sort it out.

[BikerMatt]

Sounds like the guy just can't be arsed. It's his damn referral and his patient.

It wouldn't surprise me if calling the other lot just got you referred back to your GP to sort it out.

Simply put the guy's a tw#t.

Terry, i've got a stack of evidence with things my GP has failed me on. I have everything written down, dates, times, what's been said etc.

This may seem way over the top to some, but honestly when you feel like i do, my GP has been pathetic.

I actually booked the phone appt that i had on Friday the week before, which was on the day that the ven & prop turned up through my letterbox. For me to tell my GP i'm not happy with the way it's been dealt with by the psychiatry team and for him to suggest that i wrute to them is ......... like you say, he can't be arsed!

[MyNameIsTerry]

That's the right way to do it, Matt! Get evidence. It's much harder to address someone with all the facts as it leaves a lot less wiggle room (to "suggest" things to the customer that they might accept...even the complaint handler knows it's an assumption ).

It seems just bizarre to me that you get a referral to a CMHT for a psychiatrist to just send you a bottle of pills without even seeing you! ...I wonder if they do that with Diazepam

Imagine any other specialism looking at some notes, never seeing the patient and just prescribing a treatment? That is surely unheard of?

[Carnation]

Words fail me on this Matt.
I feel I should be shocked as we are supposed to be in a more advanced world today, but I truly believe we are going backwards in society.
Not only that, it affects your trust with the so called medical profession, I know it has with me.
Sometimes I think you are better asking around real people that have experienced the same thing, a bit like we do on here.

[Lola-Lee]

Yep,I agree Carnation I might change my quack and start seeing my dogs Vet,plus he is a bit of a spunk

[Carnation]

Lola, asking your Vet is not a totally stupid idea. It is a fact that many of them train to be a doctor first.

[BikerMatt]

That's the right way to do it, Matt! Get evidence. It's much harder to address someone with all the facts as it leaves a lot less wiggle room (to "suggest" things to the customer that they might accept...even the complaint handler knows it's an assumption ).

It seems just bizarre to me that you get a referral to a CMHT for a psychiatrist to just send you a bottle of pills without even seeing you! ...I wonder if they do that with Diazepam

Imagine any other specialism looking at some notes, never seeing the patient and just prescribing a treatment? That is surely unheard of?

It's scary mate. I booked the phone appt with him and waited a week as that was the 1st phone appt available. I did the phone appt for two reasons 1, i don't like to take a face to face when i can tell him that i'm unhappy with CMHT 2, I didn't want to lose my temper and a face to face would make that easier.

I was polite and i'm biding my time, but his response of me writing to them flabbergasted me. I was expecting him to say " leave it with me i will get on the phone to them and come back to you" but then i suppose i shouldn't have been suprised as it would've been him that issued the ven and prop.

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Words fail me on this Matt.
I feel I should be shocked as we are supposed to be in a more advanced world today, but I truly believe we are going backwards in society.
Not only that, it affects your trust with the so called medical profession, I know it has with me.
Sometimes I think you are better asking around real people that have experienced the same thing, a bit like we do on here.

I now have 0 trust in Dr's as i've been left to feel this way with struggling mentally because of all the delays, bumps, fobb off's whilst living in pain. When i say i have a pain, i have a pain + my other symptoms. It's a joke.

To get a diagnosis last week of PPPD for my 24/7 dizziness was a relief, but this was something else my GP put a massive brick wall up against. PPPD is not helped by stress and when i met the audiological scientist last week she had a double take when i said it had been 24/7 since July 2017. She was "what July this year or last year?"

I hate GP's! GP surgeries should be open 7 days a week like everything else. How they got away with it is beyond me, they made out they were being asked to work 7 days but that wasn't the case. Can't they just have a rota systen? Like everyone else?

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This may seem like bull#### but i swear on my little boys life this is all true....

My nephew had severe stomach problems in the Spring. A GP turned round to him and said have you actually just thought about getting better! He's 16 and it turned out that he has crohns.

Mycousin was fobbed for a couple of years told he was depressed. Turns out he had parkinsons. This time last year he was diahnosed with bowel cancer, they removed most of his bowel but they took to long and it had spread to his liver.

The nearly 70 year old lady who live a few doors down from me was complaining of severe stomach pain sinve April. She finally had a colonoscopy at the start of Aug, she had bowel cancer but didn't find out until the end of Sept and that was only because she phoned her GP surgery. She then waited over 3 weeks to have a large part of her bowel removed but it has spread to some of her nodes. SHE IS SUING THE NHS.

My mum was diagnosed with a heart condition last Spring after waiting 4 months. It then took nearly 9 months to get the correct treatment. She developed a cough at the start of the year so her cardiologist wanted her to see a respritory consultant and they refused her referral. The cardiologist got onto it and she had her appt last week. She got there for 12pm appt and was told it was running 90mins late and did she wan't to rebook she refused and waited. Shes got to have a CT scan and a bone marrow biopsy, so that's a worry.

My mate was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in Jan and waited to have his entire thyroid removed until May.

My Dad had a AAA 3 years ago, it was fit for bursting and he waited 4 months to have it repaired.

My SIL was admitted to hospital thus summer with a massive infection caused by a huge kidney stone that would have to be surgically removed. When she was discharged she was told that the wait for surgery woukd be upto 6 months.


And breathe Matthew! I could go on but that's enough to demonstrate the NHS is crap!

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My Partner just reminded me of this one, 3 years ago her BIL had prosrate cancer, he gad to travel a 50 mile round trip 5 days a week for 6 weeks, to have radiotherapy. He got a lift there and got the bus back whilst feeling ill. After the treatment had finished he was supposed to have a follow up after 3 months to check if the treatment had worked, he got an appt 2 weeks after the treatment had finished. He phoned to say that it should be at 3 months, they had made a mistake and would send him a new appt at 3 months. Now this is silly on his part but he heard nothing! Nothing at all! He should of chased it, but never did! So he had cancer, had the treatment and had had NO follow up's! Nothing!! The treatment must've worked as this was 3 years ago, but what an NHS COCK UP! No possible way could the hospital/NHS know that!

[BikerMatt]

So at the mo you see nothing but MH things on the telly but I really don't think "normal folk" know how very little help there is or how bad it is.

In 2015 I was referred to the MH team and they based their whole report on the fact that I was clean, well dressed and made good eye contact. WTF

Last year I was referred again, wasn't even seen and nearly the whole report was based on 2015. WTF

At the start of August I went to my GP and told him I felt like jumping off a cliff so he reffered me on an urgent.

It took 5 weeks for the MH team to make contact and at this point they said they would phone me with an apppt by the following day latest.

I heard nothing for a further 2 weeks! So now 7 weeks since my urgent referral with an appt for mid Dec!

That's 4 1/2 months in total and told that's on the so called urgent appt! WTF!!!!!