Changing Doctors
When we moved here, getting a doctor took a couple of weeks, as the surgeries were all full. But yesterday, I got a new doctor near to my new house after a couple of phone calls. Incidentally, the one number that dhould have helped me never phoned back.
I’ve told my current GP and she is going to organise a printout of all the relevant details for me, when I go to get my next blood test on the 29th. She aso said that the bulk of the records would be moved by electronic transfer in due course.
So at last we’ve sen some progress in twenty years!
The Anonymous Widower 
I moved around every couple of years for while in my early 20s, and I have some missing notes as a result.
Electronic transfer is a good idea. I hope the new GP is good. Will you change hospitals or stick with Addenbrookes?
Comment by liz | November 18, 2010 |
I’ve got quite a large amount of missing notes as mine only start in 1969. Probably blame Liverpool University for that!
I’m staying with Addenbrooke’s for the moment about the coeliac, but other than that I only see the odd consultant privately.
Comment by AnonW | November 18, 2010 |
I am sure lots of people have missing notes. Both my daughters stayed with the GP here when they went to uni, both said the uni doctors were hopeless.
I think staying with Addenbrookes is sensible. I am fighting at the moment to get all my NHS based care based at the same hospital, the one where my neurologist and pain team are.
Comment by liz | November 18, 2010 |
Addenbrooke’s may not think they are a specialist coeliac hospital, but there is a lot of it in the area. My new hospital would be Homerton, which might not be up to the same standard. All my previous dealings with it, were in the 1970s and it wasn’t then!
Comment by AnonW | November 18, 2010 |
I know what you mean, a hospital is only as good for a particular condition as the doctors and specialist nurses who work there, and the experience they have had of patients with a particular condition.
Comment by liz | November 18, 2010 |
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