Thank-you all for your support. It wouldn’t be so bad except for 2 things.
one is, I have experienced this kind of thing so many times and it wears you down, especially when ill.
Two, I had already delayed getting bloods done because I had a chest infection & my GP told me not to go out in the cold (our coldest spell this winter here in the UK) . There’s a biting wind, not good for chest infections! I had a low fever for 2 weeks.

TheNHS has been brilliant until recently. This Gvt have an idealistic plan to ruin it so they have an excuse to privatise.
We will be left with a substandard skeleton NHS which only the very poorest will be able to access with very long waiting lists if it carries on.

My concern is that our age group, especially those who have a medical history of a chronic condition, will not be able to get affordable insurance, so where will that leave us?

I am so pissed off re blood test delays, not so much FBs although I am a bit interested in CR&e and white bloid celks, but VL !

My GP is lovely and very supportive but also v busy, he probably can’t keep up with all the latest changes made bu DOH and this Gvt and outsourcing of publiic services to private with new rules for each different one like the rest if us. He had filled in the usual forms & printed for me with his details & surgey, my details , the test details etc etc So now he, a busy GP has to write a letter too? Waste if GPs time and more paperwork, madness. I know GPs are getting very fed up and so oyr our junior Drs who have been on strike for the 1st time in 40 years and are leaving the NHS in droves. The Gvt have also taken away training grants for nursing. What we have held so dear since the days when you died if you couldn’t afford medical help (my grandma’s era) is being slowly eroded away.

I am trying not to let them upset me too much, they have managed tonso many times before, but it us hard! I think it’s the total rudeness and abusive attitude that really gets me, I mean, bureacracy there may be, but why take it out on a sick patient???

Here’s to more success without incident next week and no doubt another week waiting fir my VL result (Grrr)
Love to all

ps I should point out, that we all pay into the NHS

Thanks Ariel ,
Results will be delayed as I haven’t even had them taken yet!
A long story involving the usual NHS bureacracy, a very rude medic and an upset me.
Got a cab there, wrapped up warm & everything due to recent chest/sinus infection and they rudely refused to take them even though I had the signed forms from GP.

There’s more, but I am so fed up with this kind of thing locally, the rudeness is what gets me! It is what it is, try again next week!

Could get it done at GP surgery, but the last 2 times they had trouble. Pre Christmas bloods left me with a huge painful lump in vein and black & yellow painful bruise about 12″ long for 2 weeks! which is why my GP sends me to have bloods taken at the hospital. Oh well, it is what it is!

Glad your BP is calming down
Sending 2 U across the miles

If there ianyone in the UK happy to talk on camera about treating with generics, please PM me.

It was a brilliant report. Really excellent. Newsnight brought on a woman at the end from the pharmacutical world and she sounded pretty weak and incredibly corporate in comparisson. Dr Freeman got a mention and plenty of time given to all we value – A fantastic job by Kate Brown. I hope it helps some of those ‘sitting on the fence’ to decide rather than risk their health further.

Yes, my previous consultant’s education was funded by all the big pharma. He who lied to me and offered no monitoring which ever route I took and quite clearly wanted me to wait using emotional blackmail among other tricks along with two wopping lies, one on paper.

Drug companies do need the advise of medical experts, it’s ho far that ‘advise’ goes … and if it gets into ‘murky waters’.

The good news is, they’ve been rumbled, let’s hope UK ‘civil socity’ actually DO something about it.

To think that these peoples actions cause restrictions to patients accessing these meds while raking in the dosh is uttery contemptable the fact that they work for the NHS makes it doubly so.