Trying to sign up for the docs here online, having decided I'd rather make the trip to my old practice when needed and where they know me rather than continue going to the fucking revolving door student-a-thon I'm currently signed up to, and it's insisting my NHS number is invalid. Every bastard permutation of the thing, so I'm gonna actually have to go in and talk to a real person. I hate doing that.
And tomorrow is Saturday, I've just been informed, which means I'll almost certainly have completely forgotten come Monday.
I'm considering changing my GP, he used to be top notch but lately he seems to on holiday as much as he's there and recently after months to pluck of the courage I went back about my depression and he was a bit shite. Another visit the other week was equally lack luster, I wonder if thre brave face I put on things isn't helping.
Now I go to make an appointment and can't get one till mid September, FFS I'm not expecting him to fix all my problems but a bit more support would be nice. I work and pay an unholy amount of tax, if I end up sick again I could lose my job and the state would lose that money, far that alone he should be doing more. I can't even get a decent repeat for pain meds despite the hospital confirming I need them, I could easily sign up to the private plan at work but I've always declined such things so it would be a last resort. When I fell really ill a few years back I saw a female doctor ( in her late fifties I'd guess ) she was so wonderful, she saw my distress put her day on hold and got me some help, she told me things that I still find useful today and really cared, why are so few of them like that
