Women’s Health NHS Survey - Kent and Medway

[mrskiki]

This came up in my google feed, wrong area for me but I’ll have a look see if I can find one for myself to load my angst onto.

smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZSVU81/

[waveylines]

Good luck with that one. I currently can't get basic care from my GP Surgery following serious operation. I'm too complex for them apparantly....even though cares been passed back to them so their answer is to do nothing.... 3, months of this! Face to face app nigh on impossible even when their own GP recommends one. So the thought that they could ever consider women's specific needs is miles above my GPs surgery current capabilities tbh.. I've now looked ar reviews for other GP Surgeries in my area and they sound much the same. NHS has collapsed....

[mrskiki in reply to waveylines]

My problems escalated after an op too, I haven’t been well since. Unfortunately lockdown happened the following year too. They discharge you straight back to GP, end of , never being in hospital before I didn’t realise that would happened.

I regret the day of going for a routine smear test and it kicking off a chain of events that have left me a different person, I’m convinced they removed part of my brain ! Though at times it comes back to life.

Very few surgeries here within catchment area and You don’t get to see GPs any more, they load the work onto nurses and ‘clinicians’

[mrskiki in reply to waveylines]

I also found that my parents care was passed back to GP surgery,( so again nurses), so they could be removed from the consultant list, so left on their own really.

Seems a great void between GP and consultant/hospital.

[waveylines in reply to mrskiki]

I think it's all just falling apart. Week before Xmas I was rushed into hospital via ambulance with chest pain. Paramedic thought heart attack. Nope thankfully. Ended up eventually on heart/lungs ward in middle of night. Consultant turned up after 4pm following day and looked at my obs. Said we are doing an ECG. He then said yep ECGs fibe all is well you can go home. I said what about my chest pain. You've got your Kardia. It's not the heart causing it he said. Your heart is fine. End of. So nurses walked me down to taxis with my chest really hurting.. Job done. No follow up, no plan, no advice, no meds, no further investigation, no nothing.

[mrskiki in reply to waveylines]

Really not joined up is it.

Did you had a nurse assigned to your surgery procedure, if so are they an option to call?

I applied for my hospital notes recently and found all my blood tests before and after op (no thyroid unfortunately) and a note sent to my GP to say I was welcome to call the specialist nurse practitioner if I had ongoing issues . Wish I had known that. The surgery probably filed them all away and never read them , when I asked them for hospital results at the time they said they didn’t have any.

[waveylines in reply to mrskiki]

Sounds like my GP Surgery. You should've been sent copies. I did have a nurse assigned she also discharged me cardiac rehab. So when I left hospital second time hospital nurse rang me & said she'd referred me back to her. My reassigned nurse not best pleased even rather cross. Wanted to know if I was doing cardio Gym or not! And she needed me to make my mind up.. I was speechless. Woe betide you if you don't follow the exact train tracks of designated recovery time. Lol....

[Rapunzel]

First of all, thank you mrskiki, for bringing this to my attention. I live in the survey area and surprisingly, given the fact I have just left nine yards of invective on the survey, no one else has given me a heads up about this...(shome mistake, surely?)

Then, there's a Q near the end of the survey which invited respondents to rank the areas where there should be improvement. Now this is very telling, as it's ALL the areas I despair of, or have despaired of, during my life. Excepting Thyroid issues, which I damn well know, as do the creators of this survey, is (mostly) a women's issue. In other words, they bloody well know already where they're going wrong and are paying mere lip service to putting it right. I am frothing about this.

wavey, waveylines I am horrified by your tale of woe. All the very best to you and here's hoping that the wise people here and on other HU fora can provide the direction you need. I'm retiring halfway through next year and am now wondering about creating a sink fund for private medical care, without confidence that it would be any better... What a complete and utter FUBAR.

GP Monkey, the thyroid specialst

[waveylines in reply to Rapunzel]

Thank you Rapunzel for your kind words. I did my usual, created waves at my terrible GP surgery pushed for app, pointing out their own GP recommended one that week and was eventually given an out of hours one at a different surgery. Though no way on this earth can it be considered continuous care I thought I might get a better doctor. I did. He said its not nice to be told you are too complex, clearly shocked but very professional. He had clearly read up my history and letters pertinent ones were up on his screen already as I went in. . Examined me thoroughly and gave me a diagnosis, plus prescription and said as a precaution was referring me back to my Oncologist just incase. He said I will tell your surgery you MUST be seen face to face in two weeks. He was lovely & clearly had his head around my case..... not too complex for him then... I thanked him.

Next morning rang my surgery to book a face to face app in 2 weeks. We don't do that receptionist said doctor here will decide if you warrant one!! I said please read the notes of the doctor I've seen I insist I'm given one. She did then. I also asked if items organised by the nurse were in as had sent a message a month ago. Oh she said no Doctor over looked it. You shouldn't have sent the message that way. No apology then went on the person that does that is away won't be back for another week she will then order it in.....making them nearly two months over due. Good job I'd bought my own supply just incase then... Eh

I have to say if I ever was too ill to make a nuisance of myself they would do nothing, no matter what.

Being ill with such an uncaring, incompetent GP Surgery is the worst thing out. By the way they were recently reviewed by CQC given overall 'good.' Unbelievable. They didn't visit. Just a paper exercise. No patients consulted. Clearly 'good' these days is of an exceptionally low standard.....