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Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles
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My GP no longer handles eye care. We have to phone an 'urgent eye service' on the other side of the country, send phone pics and so on. They then send the prescription to the pharmacy online. If you need to be seen in person, either you go to a hospital clinic within 24h if it's urgent, or get a GP appointment weeks later when it's irrelevant, in my experience. Guess I got treated sooner and didn't have to deal with as much transport while I couldn't see properly, but it all felt a bit inefficient and impersonal.