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> If they tell you to go home that’s it and there’s no other option. Not even remotely true, if you don't mind paying. You can see a GP privately, there are al
by cjrp 9y ago
> If they tell you to go home that’s it and there’s no other option.
Not even remotely true, if you don't mind paying. You can see a GP privately, there are already lots of apps which let you book appointments. A colleague had an ear problem, couldn't get an appointment with his local GP and so used one of these app-based services and got a same-day appointment with a doctor near the office.
- chrisseaton 9y agoI think there’s only one private A&E in the UK. Most people wouldn’t be able to get to it. If you go private and something happens during treatment they have to put you in an ambulance and take you to an NHS A&E. For most ordinary people if the NHS tells you to go home that’s it you have to accept it. And people die because of this!
- pjc50 9y agoSure, and if the private system in the US tells you to home because you're not covered, you're just as stuffed. e.g. https://www.snopes.com/shane-patrick-boyle-died-after-starting-a-gofundme-campaign-for-insulin/ https://www.snopes.com/shane-patrick-boyle-died-after-starti... This is not to say that the NHS could not be better, but its problems would generally be made worse not better by introducing market or pseudo-market mechanisms. Unless universality can be guaranteed.
- cjrp 9y agoSorry, I was replying in relation to your example of the girl with asthma. She was turned away from her GP, not from an A&E.