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By Flyin'Dutch'
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Artschool wrote:
Charles Hunt wrote:Back on Covid, nice to see on todays's BBC news Dr Susan Hopkins of PHE is suggesting the double vaccinated may not need to quarantine/isolate.


one of my double vaccinated friends caught covid last week. :shock:


Clearly possible but not common.

Was it a PCR test that was positive or a LFT (quick) test.

How was it managed (Q and if so for how long?)

Hope they were not ill.
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By Pete L
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Flyin'Dutch' wrote:...remote consultation...

What's being missed in remote consultation is the time cost of two phone calls, two sets of record lookups and two lots of GP time rather than one. So remote services are actually wasting that valuable GP time - and as far as I can see from our local practice - to protect the admin staff from the public rather than to protect the public from infecting each other.

A&E was also being abused by those who play the system for a 2nd opinion as well as having to deal with ignorance about how the UK healthcare system works. That disappeared during the pandemic - not seen any stats as to whether those factors are coming back.
By johnm
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My GP has a message system on the website for non-urgent matters and will normally respond within a day. The same route is used for simple repeat prescriptions such as my Hay Fever stuff.

GPs vary considerably like any other kind of service provider.
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I have to see a consultant twice a year & this has been shifted to phone calls Due COVID. Try as I might, it is a woeful interaction as I just can't understand 80% of what he says. He is a _very_ nice man, and evidently highly trained and yet without the visual clues a face to face meeting gives, it verges on wasting both his and my time.

My village GP has been the only GP I have seen in 31 years, but he retires at the end of the month; reading the runes on the noticeboard it looks as though we will be going down the "you will see whoever is available on the day" route, rather than having a named doctor. Sad if true.
By johnm
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Our surgery offers a choice, take pot luck with whoever is available soonest or wait for a slot with named GP. I generally do the latter and it's rarely more than a couple of days.
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I see from the news that one of the Scottish football players who was involved in the match against England last Friday has tested positive for Covid and will now self-isolate for 10 days missing further matches. Is there any good reason (apart from it being football :roll: ) why the whole squad, and potentially the England players who were on the field, aren't having to self-isolate as close contacts too? If someone in a restaurant I had visited had tested positive wouldn't I have received a notification to do just that? They shared a dressing room. Or am I misunderstanding how track and trace is supposed to work?

I can only wonder how many of the 20,000 ticketless fans who crowded into Leicester Square, particularly any who travelled from Dundee, might have been positive; I am not aware of any testing being done before they travelled down south. It does make Ms Sturgeon's travel ban to Manchester look rather silly.

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By stevelup
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We've ended up abandoning our local GP.

They are literally impossible to get hold of - they simply don't answer the phone, have no online booking system, nor is it even possible to leave a message. I know full well it will be idiots calling about vaccination and myriad other things they've repeatedly been told not to bother the GP about, but still...

Fortunately, we've got private medical insurance which includes a remote GP service which worked flawlessly. The whole end to end process of booking, initial video call, referral, and confirmed appointment with a specialist took just eight days.
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Report your GP. They are in breach

Private cover all well and good, but would it be able to fund chronic illness such as renal failure requiring dialysis and transplant with life-long immunosuppressive meds,;or unstable schizophrenia;, or cystic fibrosis; or MS?
What premium would be payable at age 65, 75, 90?

It is not possible to make a profit from health care unless there is a high level of top-up from the state, or all the patients have huge resources. There will be exclusions, or limits.
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Jim Jones wrote:There will be exclusions, or limits.

Indeed, making a blended system of state and private healthcare a good option for a modern nation like the UK. Heaven help us if it was just one or the other.

The free market has had a good pandemic when it comes to vaccine creation and distribution, ably supported by the kind of interventions that only states can mobilise quickly. Even China and Russia have benefitted although their respective state's approach to regulation and efficacy leave them trailing in the wake of other places where standards are higher and maybe more transparent. Sinovac might be produced in a private company (as much as any is in China) but the low efficacy (50ish % ?) leaves a lot to be desired and nobody is quite sure what they are getting when they order Sputnik.
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