“GP Service Is Teetering On The Brink!” Streeting Considers Fines For Patients Who Miss Appointments

NHS care can be a “death sentence” for some patients, the Health Secretary has said as the Prime Minister called for better use of technology to make the NHS “fit for the next 75 years”.
Ministers have launched a consultation on the future of the NHS, promising to put patients and staff at the heart of its forthcoming 10-year health plan.
Wes Streeting said that the NHS is going through the “worst crisis in its history” while Sir Keir Starmer said that transformation of the health service would be a “moment in our history”.
Talk’s Ian Collins and Isabel Oakeshott discuss the day’s top stories.
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[@deejay1169]

This Government might as well just jail the lot of us and be done with it.

[@63mckenzie]

My mother twice received letters stating she had missed appointments. She hadn't and had her appointment book to prove it. On both occasions the nurse had forgotten to update the system. How many other so called 'missed' appointments are like these?

[@odoggow8157]

Not even the issue,u pay their extortionate salaries. Can u fine your employer? tax vat ni its all now just theft.

[@russellblinman2560]

What do GPs actually do ?? They sure aren't seeing patients.

[@Pugwash-0]

Been told by someone who knows they spend a lot time counting their money

[@markauty2242]

Pre-covid you could get an appointment relatively easily. Post covid it has been flaming impossible - whether that's as a result of the deaths of thousands of GPs through contracting covid I'm not sure - although I would have thought that would have hit the headlines! Maybe it's Brexit related? Although many GP's are of Asian or African origin and not European so that makes no sense either. Maybe its the influx of foreign nationals using the NHS? But we are told that this is not the case and and incomers have to go through many checks to access public services. So I am at a loss - but I know if i call tomorrow at 08:00 when the surgery opens - There will be no appointments available for me.

[@ruthcollins2841]

Are the GPs & Dr's/ consultants / specialists going to be charged when THEY cancel an appointment too?🤔👎

[@annaisiomaful]

Preach 😂

[@michaelattree2886]

Missed appintments! You are lucky to get one with a GP.

[@robertjones8644]

So you wait weeks for a appointment then sat there 50 mins after your appointment time lets fine the Drs then

[@davidharwood9552]

GP appointment. I haven’t seen a GP since prior to COVID. I’m fobbed off with a call back from a doctor. Normally a locum with resolution prescription and on one occasion go to A&E The role of a GP today is pass the parcel mentality

[@grahamthomas6381]

I find this frankly hilarious. I haven’t been able to make a GP appointment since 2020. Either online or visiting the surgery. It has got so bad that today I changed doctors to one that actually makes appointments. As a consequence I’d love to know where the word ‘stress’ is applicable.

[@logothaironsides2942]

I am so distrustful of the NHS now that unless I am incapacitated and someone else calls for an ambulance, I shall never set foot in an NHS facility ever again. There thats saved the government money already.

[@handbags4948]

I've never had an appointment that was on time - I've always had to wait. Should we be compensated?

[@odoggow8157]

Yes 100 percent

[@pdhywrd]

During the lockdowns they cancelled my appointments for B12 injections, which is essential and life saving for those of us with Pernicious Anaemia, yet they kept sending me invitations to go and get the covid jab. I am still getting invitations for both those and the flu jab yet they still haven't recommenced my B12 jabs and I am having to source those for myslef and do it myself.

[@Greengoblin-qk6kq]

That happened to me as well they cancel my vitamin B12 injections

[@andrewhotston983]

Just dreadful. The NHS has become psychopathic.

[@fredflintstone1]

What about you turn up for a 10 o'clock appointment and are not seen until 1pm ?????????

[@bowjana8128]

Need workers not managers sat at home making spreadsheets

[@PeterHolman-xt4fb]

Yes, it is not always the patients fault, when they have not been able to cancel appointments. We are told that, if we have a cold or cough, we should not attend, ironically enough, a GP appointment. I have recently had to cancel an appointment on those grounds. As a partially sighted person, I have difficulty dealing with the on-line site. Even typing this message on my tablet has taken me a great deal of time. I need to telephone the surgery. It is incredibly difficult to get through. I did eventually manage to cancel but, it isn't easy. Technology is not always making things easier. It depends who you are and what limitations you have.

[@Slarti]

I had an operation cancelled twice at short notice back in 1999.

[@andrewhotston983]

Just get GPs to work more than a couple of days per week!!!!!

[@RobMatton-c8g]

Starmer HAS GOT TO STEP DOWN

[@Phoenix-be1hq]

What GP service?

[@JulieCawthra]

Im sure even Isobel Oakeshott should understand that the medical service can do nothing when it comes to unforeseen circumstances ie: emergencies, it's the policy of the hospital to treat those who can't wait first. Even in planned surgery times can change according to what happens unexpectedly.

[@CharlieProbetts]

Was Australian senator Lydia Thorpe wearing real fur??? How many animals died for her protest????

[@michaeljefferson9863]

You need to be able to get an appointment first before you can miss it although if you have never paid into the system appointments are a plenty.

[@JohnCatto]

I am ignoring any appointments at my GPs surgery since they introduced having to book appointments on line through a private company. I have tried to work with it but just can't manage it. Everything not involving making an appointment is fine so most of my ongoing health care goes on.

[@raybriscoe9192]

Do we get to fine the doctors when we're on the phone for about an hour to be told there's no appointments or when we do get an appointment but the doctors running 45min+ late?

[@STEVEBINNION1]

Just called my doctor been very ill for a long time , trying to see them for a year now ...told to go see a chemist

[@whitehart11]

When are we getting the 40000 extra ones per week promised?

[@johnnyhock]

As long as the fines go both ways…. I’ve been cancelled last minute ( when I’m already there) by doctors MANY times !

[@drandrewallan]

Much of the NHS woes stem from poor and vastly extensive admissions!

[@carolokbrblol]

Why is it creaking and on its knees? < sneaky grin>

[@TonyRussell-i5i]

Will the NHS pay you for cancelling or your GP give you your bus fair or your petrol money back

[@gerardgallagher4427]

Highly trained nurses are doing a good job filling in for doctors. But don,t forget you only get 15 minutes per patient which they stress is sometimes not enough. And they prescribe medication if needed. They do a good job under the stresses there put under.

[@grahamsmith6677]

We should be doing it the other way around like in the likes of NZ.There is a small charge for seeing the GP. This also makes people think before going instead of going down the road for a bottle of cough syrup or just droppiing in for a chat. As for Charles - out of order in the setting. Good on her though - doubt Charlie gets to hear what his lackeys don't want him to hear. And he's in bed with some horrible people now!

[@odoggow8157]

I have been paying their salaries for 40yrs and never received any services now they threaten fining their employers make that make sense! Can tesco fine their customers? V.a.t n.i income tax are all now just theft!

[@anthonylloyd8000]

I went to hospital during covid me and two others came and seven didn't .

[@mchaplin66]

moron Streeting does not have a clue, people can not get appointments another tax ob working class and it would cost more than it saves

[@husiroyoh4548]

only migrants from the boats can get the free appointments with GP

[@johnpinnock9929]

You can still afford to go private, whether that be you or your partner. Someone please let me know what he or her have produced as evidence for there opinions. Pleased state background, economic background, personal background. You’re better than everyone just by your opinion. She has her views, did you see she expressed what she wanted to say. Opinion for that??? Just talking bs without substance!!!

[@anneheard9381]

Lydia Thorpe is of aboriginal descent

[@keithlevoir608]

Still throwing boomeranngs eating grubs trying to invent the wheel comes to mind