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Almost as if the idea of turning them all into stand-alone businesses to compete against each other was a bad idea. Contrary to popular fiscally conservative belief, the market does not always sort things out.
My Mum is two years into an Alzheimers diagnosis on the NHS and still waiting to se a doctor for the first time. She's lucky that she could afford to go private...going to be interesting if she does ever get an NHS appointment. She was told that she could expect one in October last year but nothing yet.
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Depends where you are tho. Current GP is beyond shit.
My old GP in Islington was decent from a service pov. Good tech, easy to use, etc. When my OH lived in Crouch End there was an excellent GP, which unfortunately closed to new applicants as it was so good for pediatrics.
Annoyingly I had to move as our GP refused to refer us for fertility treatment unless we were both registered there. Which is quite frankly ridiculous. Luckily we were able to do it in the US so didn't have to deal with them again on that matter.
TBH I don't see what's wrong with people using private GPs if they can. The reason lots of GPs are shit isn't a handful of private GPs. What is a bigger issue is that some (like mine) are so atrocious, where as others are perfectly serviceable (I'm not expect outstanding).