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Right to choose

Darlz

Hi, both of my daughters (16/18) are on the waiting list for an assessment. I’ve been looking at right to choose providers for this area and the process to be referred. I would need a face to face GP appointment for each, and the GP would need to fill out referral forms with all sorts of questions relating to symptoms.

1.Getting face to face appointments is incredibly hard. Or any appointments for that matter.

2. Neither of my girls have been referred by or seen a doctor relating to their referrals to CAMHs, they’ve been referred by college/counsellor.

3. We’ve not seen an actual doctor at our surgery in years, they all quit and the surgery was taken over this year by some other provider.

4. If we get an appointment, how am I supposed to get all information across in 5 minutes? Is there a quicker way to do this? Pre fill in the information myself for example?

If I had £250 I’d fork out for two private GP appointments which are 30 mins long, because that feels like the only way to get a stress free appointment with an actual doctor with enough time to go over it all.

Sorry for the long post. I just end up stressed out when it comes to dealing with my GP surgery! 

Parents

  • My GP has an online e-consulting service apparently open for an hour or so each weekday morning where you can write a brief summary of your need for GP appoint or request repeat prescriptions, etc.

    I didn't want to visit GP practice because it always leads to stress or not conveying things properly or efficiently enough, so I went to use the online e-consulting service, which of course was not working over a 1 month period.

    So I rang reception expecting having to grudgingly make an GP appointment for some unknown future date, I explained the situation that I have problems visiting the GP practice due to mobility issues and that I suspected I may have ASD, had found a Right to Choose Provider, downloaded and filled RTC GP letter template, downloaded and completed AQ-10 questionnaire and couldn't access the GP online e-consulting service for around a month prior.

    The receptionist was very helpful and actually offered the GP practices' email address, which is not advertised on the GP practice website, where I could email my RTC letter, AQ-10 form and a brief summary for email.

    My RTC request was approved within 3 weeks, ASD assessment a month after that and now just awaiting ASD report.

    Good luck!

  • in reply to lawlozuk

    That’s really helpful, thank you! I’ll  do the same, I’m sure the surgery will appreciate me not taking up an appointment if it’s really not necessary if they can just do the referral without seeing the girls. It saves the stress of trying to get an appointment and at a time when they’re not at college too, or I’m at work as they always want me with them. 
    Thanks again! 

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  • in reply to lawlozuk

    That’s really helpful, thank you! I’ll  do the same, I’m sure the surgery will appreciate me not taking up an appointment if it’s really not necessary if they can just do the referral without seeing the girls. It saves the stress of trying to get an appointment and at a time when they’re not at college too, or I’m at work as they always want me with them. 
    Thanks again! 

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