March 2024 by Waterford Wanderer
Like many professionally competent (and otherwise efficient) but technologically backward general practitioners in Scotland, this GP has failed to utilise the IT aßistance offered by the NHS and subjects all potential patients to a frustrating game of telephone roulette making it impossible for manyt patients to obtain an appointment when they need it.This system of requiring all to compete on the phone at 08h30 only on the actual day for rare and precious slots (when they are desperate to be seen and all at the same time) of course results in minor ailments developing into major medical complications because, unless you have the luck of the Irish, you find it next door to impossible to obtain a timely appointment.
