More NHS nonsense

[chesters1]

Had a phone call today from frimley park hospital ,hi are you attending your CT scan tonight as we haven't received your online questionair which we need to process you.

I told them I didn't know a scan was in process (a follow up to my bum camera last week ,it was mentioned by GP she wanted me to have one ) I said the NHS app hadn't alerted me with a notification an appointment had been made .Didn't you get a letter or email from the app .The NHS app ? No she said with a strange laugh our my frimley app !?!

Never heard of it I said I only have the evergreen app (the one used by the GP for practice use) and the NHS app why would I need another one ? She said with a laugh all the departments have one .

I installed their app and there was the appointment and the form she needed .

Anyway I had no way of getting there and back at 9.30 pm the last bus is at 6pm so I had to remake the appointment for next week

It seems the NHS is once more not talking to patients but also to themselves ,why so many apps? why not just the NHS one why are departments relying on patients having their app for messages but not mentioning they need it .will our phones soon be full of apps for each department instead of one all encompassing app like the NHS one .

Forgot to mention even if you have the evergreen app which used to be used for online consultations (you cannot just get an appointment now) you need another app (which I deleted because it refuses to work on my phone ) to make an appointment to get a time to submit your online consultation which could be days away ,you in essence make a queue to join another queue to send in a form to join the queue in the waiting room if it's deemed by someone you need it

The app is called patches the screenshot is from the part of the surgery you used to fill in for an online consultation ,what the hell are old or illiterate (or both) doing ?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r9oxw5t8l3t5x8l71k4je/Screenshot_20230928-170218.png?rlkey=bgn3zaqv3qoqbkpnly1l0t17c&dl=0

Your not going to fit all these apps on your big button extra loud home phone it's crazy

The surgery is also very clever hiding it's email address making it very difficult to submit all these bloody BP and glucose tests they keep asking for .

Annoyingly both evergreen and the surgery have no problem telling me I need 28 COVID and flue shots but making it impossible to message them back ,we can't have these annoying patients disturbing whatever they do today

Edited September 28, 2023 by chesters1

[*Ant*]

I had an appointment with the nurse on monday for BP and a blood test. She asked me why i'd missed a 30 minute earlier appointment with another nurse??????

What for I have no idea, and I didn't even know I had another appointment for 30 minutes earlier. 

It may have been a good idea to have let me know, and why two appointments with two nurses 30 minutes apart?????  

[Ken L]

Anyway, back to the important stuff.

How is their latest TikTock dance routine coming along. We have a new strain circulating in the community, and those pans won't just bang themselves...

[chesters1]

12 hours ago, *Ant* said:

I had an appointment with the nurse on monday for BP and a blood test. She asked me why i'd missed a 30 minute earlier appointment with another nurse??????

What for I have no idea, and I didn't even know I had another appointment for 30 minutes earlier. 

It may have been a good idea to have let me know, and why two appointments with two nurses 30 minutes apart?????  

I had a telephone appointment with the diabetes nurse .We have a pattern where I take glucose reading for the week leading to it and then I send the Apps results to the surgery (with that hard to find email address) and the pdf is put on the system for her to use to base my meds on for the next 6 months.

Call came and the pdf hadn't been put on the system despite having a whole morning to do it (how long does it take to right click on a pdf and drag it to my details) she disapeared for ten minutes (the whole time the appointment is supposed to be) they can't find it it 'was' there but has disapeared (they obviously 'cut' not 'copied' an amateurish mistake). I spent five minutes reading out the details from my app so the nurse could judge what to do .I did my bit but they couldn't be bothered to employ people to do theirs .

I am not sure what's going on in the world ,since COVID it's gone to pot ! is there something in the water it's not only millennials going mad it's hitting all ages .luckily our water is very clean I suggest you filter yours before it hits you!

There is something going on perhaps some drug in the water to control the masses and it's not just about punishing you to force you to buy a bonfire sorry en EV car! And sit in your front room huddling round a candle while they live off the fat of the land.Theres a worldwide agender going on with the governments willingly installing carrots and sticks (in the case of the UK BIG sticks) to force it in ,either a powerful alien species has got Intouch 'advising' us to mend our ways or big money and power is involved ,there's a toss up between the two or both!

As the WEF said you will own nothing and be happy ,we know it's we will own nothing while they own everything and be very very happy .

Edited September 29, 2023 by chesters1

[chesters1]

4 hours ago, Ken L said:

Anyway, back to the important stuff.

How is their latest TikTock dance routine coming along. We have a new strain circulating in the community, and those pans won't just bang themselves...

All seemed fine when I had the camera ,in fact there was more staff than patients .There's a group of union controlled doctors and nurses who stand around causing the population to think the NHS has ground to a halt but most are working doing their jobs . I guess the pan bangers are such a group while the rest raise their eyebrows and do their jobs.

My missed appointment Wednesday was at 9.30 pm something unheard of so obviously money above the norm is found to pay most probably private companies to work unusual hours as most high cost tech is not owned or operated by the NHS but leased and installed in hospitals along with their operators.

On actual visits to the doctor's all the staff seem to be there but the waiting room is empty which doesn't make sense ,one conversation from the receptionist I hear was there is no vacant appointments today but aside me and one other the waiting room was empty and in the half hour we had been waiting (actually so early the machine didn't see half an hour ahead to log you were there) no-one had gone in so bugger knows what the staff was up to the only person seemingly doing anything was the receptionist ,most of the calls are callers starting to get angry because you cannot get anything unless you use one of the many apps the practice uses instead of carrying on as they did pre COVID which worked just fine imho

The non ever used 32" TV and dedicated pc has gone the apple tablet that was hidden behind a cardboard sign in the hall is missing the tablet and it's clone that couldn't be used in the waiting room has gone and the screen that advertised various local firms in a loop has now gone blank but is still switched on .so the NHS isn't short of cash by any means another strange thing is 90% of all the posters in the waiting room have gone and only ones refering to the NHS are left ,the rack containing a score of pamphlets concerning various medical problems has gone I guess to not encourage you to bother the doctors when you notice the symptoms on the pamphlet you appear to have .

Edited September 29, 2023 by chesters1

[Ken L]

5 hours ago, chesters1 said:

All seemed fine when I had the camera ,in fact there was more staff than patients .There's a group of union controlled doctors and nurses who stand around causing the population to think the NHS has ground to a halt but most are working doing their jobs . I guess the pan bangers are such a group while the rest raise their eyebrows and do their jobs.

My missed appointment Wednesday was at 9.30 pm something unheard of so obviously money above the norm is found to pay most probably private companies to work unusual hours as most high cost tech is not owned or operated by the NHS but leased and installed in hospitals along with their operators.

On actual visits to the doctor's all the staff seem to be there but the waiting room is empty which doesn't make sense ,one conversation from the receptionist I hear was there is no vacant appointments today but aside me and one other the waiting room was empty and in the half hour we had been waiting (actually so early the machine didn't see half an hour ahead to log you were there) no-one had gone in so bugger knows what the staff was up to the only person seemingly doing anything was the receptionist ,most of the calls are callers starting to get angry because you cannot get anything unless you use one of the many apps the practice uses instead of carrying on as they did pre COVID which worked just fine imho

The non ever used 32" TV and dedicated pc has gone the apple tablet that was hidden behind a cardboard sign in the hall is missing the tablet and it's clone that couldn't be used in the waiting room has gone and the screen that advertised various local firms in a loop has now gone blank but is still switched on .so the NHS isn't short of cash by any means another strange thing is 90% of all the posters in the waiting room have gone and only ones refering to the NHS are left ,the rack containing a score of pamphlets concerning various medical problems has gone I guess to not encourage you to bother the doctors when you notice the symptoms on the pamphlet you appear to have .

Either way, hope you feel better soon, and that they don't schedule you for more than one exam on the same day - the "spit roast" option...

[Martin56]

The "Listen Sweetheart - You're there to work for Me, not the other way round", usually focuses their attention!! . And always gets a reaction!!!!!

Whatever it may be - You will feel better for it.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Martin56

[chesters1]

I tend to keep quiet when they have a needle in their hand .

Had my CT scan yesterday ,unlike the last visit the place was packed and obviously confusion about as a porter who spoke very bad English may have brought the wrong patient? .Despite asking the obviously confused old lady in the bed several times her details her answer (all times the same) differed from what they expected .On questioning the porter if he was sure it was the patient he stormed off flinging the door to leave despite the notice telling users to press the green button to open it and disapeared (later seen smoking a fag under the sign saying no smoking by the entrance as we left)

The old lady was obviously sentient enough to raise her eyebrows at me and waved back when i waved across to her so I suspect she have the correct answer and the fault lay up in the ward she came from rather than her not knowing who she was.

The radiographer (or what ever CT scanner drivers are called ? )Seemed to be a one man band ,a nice black man with a great sense of humour as I accused him of taking my blood to sell to vampires outside the entrance and to be careful if I faint because there's no chance of him lifting me back up so roll me into the corner until I comeback to my senses .The cannulae was in place before I realised it none of that if it doesn't work the first time stick it in again until it is .After asking my my details again (the third time since collecting me from the waiting room 12 feet away) he led me into the next room where the scanner was and asked again then I laid down and the scanner started whirring then obviously the iodine was injected and suddenly I got hot starting from my arm .Not unpleasant but weird I told him to increase to full power as there was a lot of fat to get through which set him off again and a minute later the whirring increased and the bed starting started moving after a couple of holding my breath for ten seconds it was over ,8 minutes (I forgot to remove my watch but I had both arms above my head ) not the 30 in the leaflet and I was taken back to the previous room ,obviously the post scan setup didn't use the black bloke so I sat for 15 minutes waiting for a silent nurse to come from a staff room (staff only on the door) and again ask my details and then remove the cannular and sent me on my way ,no smiles no small talk not even a gold star for being such a brave boy a vast difference from the smiling chatty first guy .

Still not got any feedback from the biopsies from the bum camera so won't expect the results from this for a little while I presume.

Another annoying thing was once I installed the frimley app I had to fill in a form with the details and then again when I checked in to see if it was going ahead in the morning but on checking in there was an exact same paper form to fill in ,the attractive receptionist laughed when I asked her if she though looking at me I was too old to use modern tech ,she said it was normal but didn't answer why the online version wasn't used .

In all an ok visit as usual at frimley

Edited October 7, 2023 by chesters1

[Ken L]

"No news is good news" is the usual mantra whenever anybody wants to do tests with me.

[chesters1]

They hide bad news if at all possible ,who's paid enough to tell people really bad news ?. Perhaps only the hospital vicar hoping for late converts leaving something in their wills will do it

At least with bad news you have time to prepare your family rather than suddenly dying in a week . Bill my deceased head bailiff finally relented (after months of me telling him to get medical help for his bad back) and visited the doc got an invite for a scan 3 days later and was dead in a month .He never told his Mrs how Ill he was so she was unprepared for life after him .Luckily his son lived up the road so could help but my Mrs would be buggered ,I have a note book I keep updated in the safe with everything I can think of I do in everyday life  but she has no clue to and I mean everyday stuff her epilepsy wipes her short term memory every fit she has so it needs to be on paper even bad news is good news sometimes

What's best ?news that's bad for you or no news that's bad for your loved ones once the bad news is really really bad news when it's to late to do anything once they realise something amiss and you croak two days later .

IE I changed the filters in the water filter yesterday and realised unless you realised how it works you wouldn't have a clue changing them in the future .I marked the pipes that need to be removed to get it out and where they plug in and where each filter goes so with the diagram I made that lives with the replacement filters there's a chance she could change them and I also made reminders in my shared calender so the dates are noted .She probably won't bother but I am a " just incase guy" it's better to waste MY time than do nothing and punish others for not trying to help them once I have gone in the skip

Edited October 7, 2023 by chesters1