No seriously. I took this assessment to see how i compared with others. And I got a shock because over 60% shared my lack of confidence in the care and treatment I am recieving. I know the cause and it is not the COPD team at Braintree - they have been excellent and I shall have to go back now, knowing what I have seen here.
The problem is my GP surgery. Fistly I am new patient there, having been undr a GP team at Reepham in Norfolk for about 12 years. I hardly ever doubted the clinical value of that surgery, even though it was at times bit unresponsive in management terms.
Here however in Halstead I do have worries. The practice COPD nurse is more about asthma than COPD for a start. Nice and capable but... hmmm. I have yet to see the same GP or nurse practitioner twice. I have asked about my meds and there was a review - carried out by a non-clinical person over the phone! SAnd their utter inability to provide decent appointments is appalling. We are expected to turn up around 8.30, queue to be triaged, then sit around and wait in a crowded surgery for a consultation with somebody. And on top of COPD I have a compromised immune system so sitting around alomngside sick people is not the brightest idea.
Thing is I am pretty good just now. The warm summer was a help - or rather the low humidity was. And our new flat and the ev=nvironment here seems to agree with me.
So given the above I shall take time to call the COPD tem at Braintree and see if i can talk to them.
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Hello I'm new here! A couple of questions about paroxysmal AF
