What's the cost of more visits to endos?

[lynmynott]

Interesting question asked - parliament.uk/business/publ... Something Thyroid UK wants to know the answer to. The Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee South discussed at their meeting in January - awaiting minutes - sps.nhs.uk/networks/regiona... Seem to be part of the Specialist Pharmacy Service? Next meeting is 3rd May. Might be useful if patients contacted them? If only there were contact details for them.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Most patients just don't get referral back to endocrinologist. Just a letter in post saying Liothyronine is withdrawn and often no increase in Levothyroxine to compensate either

Whole situation is totally unacceptable.

[Shelley1954]

Interestingly, having been referred to an endo & seen him 4 times, despite me giving my GP a copy of his notes with blood test results etc, these are not on my records! So its a waste of money it seems anyway!

[crimple in reply to Shelley1954]

Well not having endo notes on your GP file would seem like a good way to ignore your illness and deny you proper treatment.

It is all disgraceful how thyroid patients are NOT treated properly.

[Shelley1954 in reply to crimple]

Could also be very dangerous.

[crimple]

Thanks for posting Lyn, seems like the usual non informative NHS waffle to me!