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G.P's at my Surgery next to useless

I currently have three health conditions not being addressed.

Three different problems.
Spinal.
Neurological.
Possibly viral

Referrals to three different hospital departments at three different hospitals each 40+ miles from home.
All of whom have taken a total of 16 blood samples.
12 C:T scans.
9 MRI's
And consultations galore.
Some in person.
Some in clinics.
In recent times many via phone or video calls.

And not so much as an Aspirin dispensed throughout.

Yesterday evening I received a phone call from a duty Doctor at my Surgery apologising for the delay in getting the results of my tests.
all of which I had to do myself and return the results to the Surgery.
Including having to go to one drug company website and then using Google translate just to get some idea of how to take the test as the instruction on the packaging made no sense when read.

I was told during this phone call that until results were in and he could issue a defined antibiotic for the viral problem, he'd issue a generic one-off. Probably a jab that I could do at home just to relieve symptoms until he gets the results middle of next week.

Hoorah !
Finally something being done !

So this morning I go to collect what I thought would be painkillers and this jab only to discover (after having queued for 40 minutes) no jab. No painkillers....just something to settle my stomach; a heat pad....im assuming this is for the kidney area pain, and for some reason a box of sticking plasters. (Which im assuming is some sort of placebo for the neuralgia patches he said he'd issue)

Im done
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JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
I dont know what to tell you to do...or even who you can call to get the ball rolling faster.

Is there any sort of patient advocate at your local hospital or in your area? Maybe this is the way to go...someone who can coordinate and get the information and get them on top of it? This is my only thought at the moment aside from calling each doctor and leaving a scorched earth type messages about reporting to medical boards for lack of treatment.

This is infuriating and i am sorry...
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@JaggedLittlePill About a month ago I requested a meeting with the Practice Manager.
This is the head of the Doctors Surgery.

I outlined my concerns and made it clear i wasn't complaining (there are stories everywhere that folk who submit official complaints suddenly find their medical records are no longer being kept at the surgery and front line staff denying they were ever patients at the practice they're complaining about !)
I merely wanted to know IF there was a plan, and IF they were ever going to let me in on it !

He gave me the whole [quote]The system is under considerable strain at the moment,
what with covid; flu season; a high need anong medically reliant groups affected by budget cuts to services [/quote] baloney.