“New NHS App Prejudicial Against Older People” | Plans To Cut Millions Of “Pointless” Appointments

[@Milkster1904]

All illegal immigrants should have NO access to the NHS for ANY reason.

[@CarolBraithwaite-z2w]

I am an older person who has tried to get an appointment twice recently, for serious conditions. Both times I have been told to go to A&E.

[@Isherwoodsounds]

Waste of time. Another way to get rid of the old. If you are blind or hard of hearing. We need to speak to someone on phone. Not a computer.

[@SassyO100]

I would hope there would be exceptions surely 🙏🏽

[@krishnajoshi6740]

Even us who can see and hear have difficulty using computer so we should all have a choice of wanting to speak with staff.

[@Matty-e8r]

Someone who is hard of hearing can't use a phone and someone who is blind is definitely going to struggle to use a phone

[@krishnajoshi6740]

@@Matty-e8r it’s a choice people get and should have.

[@Matty-e8r]

@krishnajoshi6740 It isn't a very good choice. Either phone calls (which blind and deaf can't use without assistants) or an app which blind people can't use but deaf people can

[@Flossy_tops]

Labour doesn’t care about old people. I have the NHS app and the Doctors turn off half the functions… But how about an App that puts British nationals ahead of migrants?!

[@janicebirch7522]

@@Flossy_tops oh Flossy you know it's so naughty of you to say that. It upsets the grandiose self entitlement culture of the Rht Hons in this country who regard the UK ' populust' as second class citizens!

[@janicebirch7522]

@@Flossy_tops Anything to do with the doctors? Oh no Flossie you know patients and patient care are the poor relations to big pharma tech and University research! We need more NURSES desperately, they CARRY the doctors.

[@Rosie-tv3ki]

I have the NHS App on my phone which I’ve used a few times, went to look at results of my blood test on it, it suddenly decided it wanted another password and then the phone locked now I’ve lost everything that was on my phone 😡

[@Flossy_tops]

@@janicebirch7522 needing more Drs and nurses goes without saying! … But from my own perspective my functions have been turned off or blanked out... I’m one of those who likes to look after one’s health. Now I may be mixed up because I’m was referring to my Drs surgery website!? Which is still in a roundabout way connected. Now before I changed surgeries I was able to access the majority of things. However my New GP practice despite asking several times have said that all I can have open is the repeat prescriptions.

[@annread859]

Like big brother watching you all the time. I am not techno minded, my husband doesn't have a mobile phone. It took me six times to get an appt on computer as it kept throwing my email out. By the way who is going to pay for all these gadgets. Wes Streeting might think some hospital appts are pointless but to the patient who has symptoms it isn't. I know it saved my life.

[@markscript5746]

Of course no app that enables people to get ahead of migrants at the top of the list

[@jamesbinderman5626]

This is a backdoor to digital ID.

[@iancampbell3202]

100%

[@robinburn4974]

Most old age pensioners don't know what a chuffing app is

[@barbarawatson691]

Elderly people have not got smart phones, nor can they afford one. My elderly sister is one of the above and I dread to think how they are going to manage They are one of thousands in the same boat .

[@hughfawcett4333]

Absolutely

[@strongandco]

It's not just OAPs that don't use smart phone and apps. 😉

[@JohnCatto]

I am an old git and I hate technology, since this new idea of booking a GP appointment on line came in I have been totally unable to get anything done regarding my GP. I have declined getting routine jabs, I want my medication adjusted and so on but I cannot do it on line. The end result is that I just don't bother.

[@patriciasenior8487]

I am the same. I am 73. They seem to give me tablet that will make my condition worse. So I don’t take them.

[@petebaker8166]

Mate I'm 60 and feel your pain.

[@zoecurran4185]

A GP practice near me uses an online booking system/triage system which has caused all sorts of issues and made it even more difficult to get an appointment. Phone calls have been difficult for a while, but still difficult for older folk all round. I use tech, but am fed up of everything being put online. Sites aren't always user friendly and not everyone wants to do things via an app, presumably on phones?

[@clovermark39]

I am 64 and although I can access and operate the app etc I would rather go talk to someone in person. My Mum is 96 and I help her sort her appointments else she wouldnt be able to get anything. Mum does go to the drs surgery as it is too busy to get any appointments via phone. I do use the website ra5her than the app. There are too many apps. We don’t need one for everything and I don’t trust any government app.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

I'm so lucky it's first come first served in my Doctors surgery and no time restriction. . I live in a large village in a tourist area near the sea in North Germany.

[@Slademanxx]

WEF plan, get rid of the old, i'm 67 and i just can't get my head round apps, and they know a lot of oldies don't.

[@suttonelms1]

The elderly are the people most in need of treatment - and these are exactly the people who are least skilled using digital devices. This is a really bad idea. The NHS needs telephone lines, and a sensible callback procedure to avoid long queues on the phone. And as someone else has said, this new app will make everything more complicated.

[@debramckay4611]

I witnessed two elderly ladies, one who had fallen and dislocated or fractured her shoulder and another who had so obviously fractured her back, both in agonising pain, being escorted to Ubers from the GP surgery because they were told they didn't fit the criteria for an ambulance. So how does an app help anyone ? 😡

[@juliehall7476]

& let the poor buggers go to hospital in agony!!! Disgrace!!

[@liahurst8575]

I had to wait 3 weeks for a telephone appointment with a doctor but when the day came, that doctor was off sick, so they gave me another appointment in 4 weeks time. So, in essence, I've waited 7 weeks to speak to someone.

[@samhodgins9804]

Sorry to hear this but don't expect it to improve under Labour

[@deniseg-hill1730]

I payed £21 a month for private GP insurance and £21.50 a month for dental insurance when I lived in London. That was in 2014

[@kmansfield7733]

Labour are waging war on the old.

[@stequality]

As are the public who voted them

[@Pat13-z8o]

It’s actually the WEF, their agenda is horrific for what is planned for us. Starmer is a WEF puppet

[@Happyheretic2308]

They’re waging war on the British.

[@MrDeano65]

I'm 45 a carer and don't own a mobile phone so is this why I haven't been able to see a doctor now for 25 years !

[@janicebirch7522]

May God bless you as a carer, you are the most under appreciated essential worker in the country! 🙏. As are BRITISH NURSES in the SEXIST male controlled NHS. This because the majority of nurses are women and PATIENT CARE is now the poor relation to ' big pharma research in top UK University teaching hospitals! Where would the international doctors be, without the millions of UK NHS patients, funded by worked to death and taxed to death UK citizens!?

[@SassyO100]

O2 has a scheme to give access to phones for people without access to. Would be worth enquiring at your local O2 store on the high street.

[@mancyank564]

@SassyO100, not everyone has access to an O2 shop. There isn't one in my town and I don't know where the nearest one is.

[@rebeccamondloch4265]

Doctors get paid for seeing patients so start earning our taxpayers cas

[@clemo49]

Not any more. They get paid according to the number of patients on their lists

[@Gaston-ri5vr]

Its just a simple solution that won't work, still doesn't get me a GP appointment

[@jcaldwell2022]

I have the NHS app and my doctor chooses to turn off many of the functions so how will this work if they can do that ? Have blood tests and you can’t see the results in the app because the doctor doesn’t want you to see them. How will booking an appointment online stop you from not attending?

[@anuragsinha2013]

It's a monitoring app.

[@atlasnetwork7855]

Exactly, everyone's personal data will be sold to the highest bidder. If there's a website i think that's a bit different, but an app? Hell no, i'm sick of app culture.

[@Isla2715]

I only go to the Doctors when my husband arranges it as my carer. There are things I don't tell him or anyone else I do not think it is worth it anymore. The worst that can happen is I die! This country is past wanting to exist in these days

[@poppy1779]

Streeting is selling it hard, that tells me everything I need to know.

[@oldshiny3012]

lmao waste of time and money and will solve nothing but complicate the whole system ten fold

[@SimoneSwaine]

You still can’t get a face to face appointment with a GP, it’s disgusting. So many people have had their ailments misdiagnosed with over the phone.

[@angryofmayfair7091]

Tell them your an asylum seeker then job done. 😊

[@toniswift6058]

Like everything else to do with the NHS... You won't be able to speak to anyone when they get something wrong or cancel your appointment last minute... I have given up bothering.

[@sandralowe2354]

Old people can’t afford a phone let alone use one so they leave the old out in the cold

[@timgomolka644]

It’s not just older people that don’t have smartphones. Many younger people don’t either.

[@Pat13-z8o]

Immigrants get their phones free, handed over as soon as they put a foot on UK soil. It’s disgusting

[@DonaldDeCicco]

This type of dehumanizing Healthcare automation happened in the US years ago. Now AI is rolling out and you are discouraged from direct communication or in person visits.

[@SusanBell-dl5gr]

The Government have a bad track record with software development, how much of the NHS are still on window XP, when you are older tech becomes harder to use, with touch screesn and seeing the screen , also this will mean updateing to the the latest device, having good connections, creating another layer of exclusion.

[@robn71]

And it'll get hacked within 5 minutes

[@janicebirch7522]

Who makes the smart watches and who makes the profit! This is big brother to monitor people's behaviour and treatment will be denied if people do not take the ' skinny jabs' or big pharma prescriptions! Who else CAN ALSO VIEW THIS INFORMATION? You think this is good then wait until you are forced to have a chip in your hand!,

[@samhodgins9804]

Look at Wes Streetings private healthcare donors and that is your answer

[@janicebirch7522]

@samhodgins9804 Reported in the Daily Telegraph weeks ago that the drug company which is alleged to have donated a miniscule amount to the NHS asked for a certain number of ' clients' in return!,? No one else in the UK MSM seems to have reported on this?

[@abazely2743]

Already available with chips on shoulders.The Matrix beckons.

[@janicebirch7522]

@abazely2743 Those films we thought were dystopian Sci - fi seem to becoming more of a reality everyday!

[@IBIZAPT]

Someone check this app to see what else it’s doing. Guaranteed it’s nefarious.

[@DougRutter]

Blair of Iraq trying to get ID cards through the “back door”!

[@stequality]

Pretty much

[@mancyank564]

How are people with limited sight able to use the app?

[@MrMan-f9c]

The NHS has an app its dire ,our doctor doesnt use it ,Frimley Park hospital uses their own ,i have 4 apps just for my medical needs its crazy

[@SimoneSwaine]

I was referred to my local hospital urgently due to the possibility of me having cancer. I was seen by a consultant 2 weeks later which was back in July. I’m still waiting for my 6 week follow up appointment! It beggars belief.

[@terencewhite8105]

Load of crap,just try to make a forward appointment for a health issue that may be concerning you but not urgent, in my area of Essex,impossible

[@justbecausenootherreason]

Hang on, app. Hmmm so digital ID via the back door?

[@clarepartrick1066]

What happened to choices this is wrong on all levels.

[@Pat13-z8o]

I haven’t had a GP appointment for 3 years, I’m 64 and disabled and the surgery prefers seeing migrants illegal or otherwise. Sickening thing is I worked for the NHS for years.

[@trishbarrett4496]

Boody awful app a load of rubbish... Service that is killing people

[@ronwoodronwood661]

people have long memories they will not forget this government whatever they say .

[@Warnz60]

The apps are useless and not easy to manoeuvre. There are so many apps to, hospital patient portals that don’t get updated, GP apps, our surgery uses two. It will fail. Would save money by reducing protocols, getting rid of overpaid useless execs and investing in good equipment and hospitals.

[@barbaraaimson2100]

Labour want our homes ,doesnt want to pay our pensions but wants any money we have.

[@kmansfield7733]

Another NHS gate, or is it a moat? You have to fill in an online form to qualify to even apply for a GP appointment at the local surgery. Old people are steadily being excluded from health services. Everything Labour have brought in since forming the government in July has been detrimetal to the elderly.

[@ronwoodronwood661]

I know a couple of elderly people who dont have smart phones etc they use the phone for everything , lookslike theyre going to lose out .

[@marksapollo]

It's just yet another way for GP's to avoid face to face appointments, unless you're an immigrant of course. An app does NOT replace face to face appointments, a doctor or physically seeing the problem.

[@Calmlocket]

The only way to sort the NHS out is to get rid of the privatisation in it!

[@carpediem3391]

I’ve been waiting over a decade for a double knee replacement after being knocked down by a drugged up driver I’m still on a 10 years waiting list,ftrust the government trust the nhs waiting list

[@BobMonty99]

These apps are all well and good, but what do people do in a power cut ?

[@barrywood7322]

My GP’s doesn’t allow appointments via apps we can get repeat prescriptions but no appointments. I also get multiple reminders for any I make appointment’s as it is, I’m in my sixty’s and never missed an appointment I’ve rearranged them but never missed. People don’t care my wife went for a mammogram and a nurse told her she was the first to turn up, it was 3pm and no one could be bothered to phone and cancel all day.

[@ivanwoodhouse1958]

As an 85 year old I hate apps and find it so physically difficult using a small smart phone with small letters and numbers and my fat arthritis fingers

[@familycompactthegrange7014]

One issue with any NHS app is whether there is a backspace key if you make a mistake. The number of times my clumsy fingers have erred over putting in my birthdate, and I have had to close down the app - which does not let me try again! Useless!

[@almareising2382]

They can stick the App where the sun doesn't shine. Non In-glish speKers will use it, will they?? Doubt it

[@mannie7028]

They’ll spend a million of our quid on multi interpretations to appease them.

[@worldrecord54]

That labor paper on NHS to digitize works. Canada has had it for years. . This streamlines medical practices. Just doesn't save a dime.

[@taniayager3361]

Total discrimination against the elderly!

[@ruthcollins2841]

Yearly all should have an ECG / CT scans; faeces as preventative measures. GPs should do yearly Blood / BP tests. Then serious illnesses will be seen earlier stopping more expensive treatments later. My sister lives in Portugal and pays €80 for BP/ BP / ECG etc scans / tests with the same GP or hospital with results within 3 days. Why can't UK follow THEIR system! Too many management ruining the work of the nurses / Dr's! 🤬🤦‍♀️👎

[@valeriegrimshaw1365]

Our NHS caters for millions who've NEVER paid in and NEVER will......

[@hughfawcett4333]

Just like Boris who spent billions on a useless COVID app

[@Sussex_Seagull]

Switched to a dumb phone to avoid scams and high mobile costs....now what?

[@pixielovebirdxoxo8701]

This big new push from Labour reference NHS is to take the heat away from the rape gangs

[@peteraston4753]

If liebour want to improve the NHS get rid of the privatised management being paid over £150,000 pa

[@mkirwan7165]

It's not a good idea David, it quite terrible for people who don't want mobile phones and dealing with app,, Also this choice of having 5 hospitals to choose from is not new I was given this choice last may,,

[@karenbarker9474]

Tony Blair behind this. Creeping towards Digital ID. No thanks👎

[@peteraston4753]

Nhs app just to collect data

[@ChrisPhillipsDrumLessons]

I don’t and won’t ever use an app that is linked to a government funned business

[@ianashton1593]

As everyone with any common sense knows, the main problem is we have millions of additional people using the NHS who’ve never paid a damned penny into it. How can you massively increase the population and not expect problems. The other well known issue is far too much bureaucracy, after a phone appointment I usually get at least five follow up letters when one would suffice !

[@pamelsims2068]

Why doe nobody understand that technology costs money elderly people in their 80 s often have NO technology except a landline. They cannot afford wifi and devices. . If they have a mobile it will not be a smart phone. They cannot use or understand how to put apps on a device. I got my 88 year old aunt an iPad. She can just about read and answer an email....... but has no printer... can't copy, cut, paste, or edit text.without just backspacing all the way back to the error and typing it all again. Every single app is different to every other app... elderly people are generally unable to remember what is where on different apps. Their memory cannot cope with that diversity. These people do not have dementia.... they are use old, tired, feeling unwell and unskilled in technology.

[@angryofmayfair7091]

It's not the only diversity we can't cope with.😊

[@samhodgins9804]

Keep bleating that Labour are the party of the NHS 😂 you can have the choice of five hospitals but the reality you need the closest one 😂

[@angryofmayfair7091]

Doesn't matter which hospitals, illegal migrants will be seen first.🤬

[@lorenchaffe2327]

I have a blind 81yr old aunt who is housebound and only has a static landline as she cannot see phone's. I'm 62 and don't like app's on my phone (which I've had since 2016), as I cannot afford a newer phone. I'm a bit of a technophobe and panic with all the "app" things😦 and would prefer to "talk" to and "see" someone. I'm not even able to do my doctor's booking system and have to get the receptionist to 'fill' it in for me, but then still don't get to see a Dr!! I'm currently waiting for an operation due to a prolapse and excessive pain which is wrecking my day to day life, while trying to work part-time and look after my aunt(Who lives 50mls away) So how does this help us?? I'm sure I'm not the only person who doesn't cope with the technology 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@clemo49]

First of all I have to get a GP appointment!

[@pamelsims2068]

I have not been able to book a GP an appointment and my GP surgery does not subscribe to that part of the app.

[@Pat13-z8o]

All MP’S and the LORDS think the elderly are useless grazers, forgetting they have already paid their dues.

[@eileentarrant9876]

I went to hospital a month ago and after about a year where when you parked you went through a barrier got a ticket put your ticket in a machine and paid for your time now you go through a barrier no ticket then after your appointment you enter your car registration number into a machine it tels you what you owe you then put your card in or money and after an eye appointment it was hard to see .these things for old people are hard , nobody seems to consider old people in a lot of things nowadays .A 😅friend took me and I paid for parking and I had to run in and out because I didn’t know her reg 🤷🤷🤷🤷

[@whitehart11]

What's an app?

[@Chris-u3i5g]

Just filled an online NHS form in prior to a specialist visit. What utter crap it was. Utter garage.

[@1beckedorf]

I have been on this app for 12 months it’s complete bollocks, it’s never updated and its another way of keeping you out of A&E ,another way of watering down the waiting lists for the NHS.

[@nigeljones4464]

Not everyone has a phone that is up-to-date enough to run Apps that the government are producing and in the current cost of living crisis many people cannot afford to just go out and buy a new phone or other device to run these government Apps.

[@msjcars2317]

Total bullshit

[@samhodgins9804]

£22bn for absolutely nothing

[@angryofmayfair7091]

Black hole?

[@blackislepeastoo]

Whatever whatever let's just get some appointments and results. My wife has chronic arthritis and is still waiting to see a specialist after 18 MONTHS. A recent call to check the status revealed they are still working through 2023 BACKLOG and she's unlikely to see anyone until sometime in 2026 !

[@RCPMione]

As someone who works in a ITHelpdesk role - it not going to help just put more pressure on the support services trying to intrupet it and cause a lot of distress for people trying to use the app. particular on those that are not tech Savy

[@1metuka]

As a Retired NHS nurse this just makes me roll my eyes. AS anyone whose worked in the NHS for any length of time will know ; After every election you get a reinvention of the NHS, by people who know nothing about healthcare. Maybe do some serious research to find out what will actually work?

[@hughfawcett4333]

This means all the money going to consulting firms instead of healthcare

[@Whysohard123]

Anyone remember choose and book, that didnt work either and that was under labour. It just put more on GP services.

[@animalian01]

Im sorry,as a person with multiple health issues, and I'm 63, I want to go to my nearest doctor and nearest hospital. I don't drive anymore and I don't walk very well, so I need as little travel as possible.

[@angelaswales7492]

ALSO ARE THEY GOING TO USE OUR INFORMATION AGAINST US ?

[@petebaker8166]

I don't want a bloody app and soon won't have a smart phone. I'm f****d then.

[@inezrussell3814]

How many people will understand the results of a consultation if it is sent to them. Medical terminology, blood tests, etc etc. I very much doubt I would understand it and I hold a PHD .

[@pamelsims2068]

The app DOES NOT WORK,,,we have had it for years... it is useless!!!!!!,

[@DeneMonkey]

Many elderly who can’t use computers or smartphones are in care homes

[@stequality]

Troll post as usual

[@truditandy422]

You are ridiculous

[@valeriegrimshaw1365]

And many are not

[@DeneMonkey]

@valeriegrimshaw1365 probably living with family

[@mannie7028]

Don’t care homes have smartphones or computers then, or carers to do this for them? Your trolls are getting boring in their stupidity, but the channel appreciates your addition to the algorithm.

[@WoodyAllen-q5d]

Do they tell you that if you don't use the app for 2 years they kick you off, happened to me, I'm 65 . Quite frankly they can put their app where only a surgeon can find it .

[@sirjohng1]

Apps ALWAYS get HACKED so what privacy and protection will be used to prevent this?

[@hughfawcett4333]

IT solutions nearly always disappoint and are oversold to clueless sponsors like streeting.

[@lesleybibby2494]

I had some results sent to me via an app the other day, I have no idea how to access it

[@clovermark39]

We already have an NHS app we don’t need another one? To make an appointment they too that facility of the app and put it on the Drs website and only limited time.

[@earwigbox1]

Deck Chairs. Titanic.

[@judidonnie1167]

Starmer is the greatest threat to himself, robotic, boring & is totally out of his depth & more interested in being out of the country

[@Lulsz4]

I wont be downloading their spyware!!

[@Leoviliti1]

If its to free up the nhs so that The elderly , blind and those with no, or very limited access to internet can still go down their usual route .. Then its probably ok But thats just it . Has Wes Streeting thought of provisions for These people or has he just jumped in the puddle without his wellies?

[@lfcfan8158]

The App is good for repeat prescriptions and requesting advice. I use the Patches system and get a call back v quickly from GP surgery to book an appointment. The App being updated is a good idea and lots of older people are able to access this. I have to say my experience of the NHS in the last year has been very good but know that's not the case for others.

[@strongandco]

Oi! It's not just OLDER people who don't use smart phones and apps 😄

[@trevorclarey3336]

I am 67 years old , tell me about it .