Top Health centers in Andrew close, Shenley, Hertfordshire, England, United kingdom

Gateways Surgery

Address: 17 Andrew Cl, Shenley, Radlett WD7 9LP, UK

“Good Dr's. Can always get a 'medical emergency' appointment on the day. However, to get a non emergency appointment with your own Dr. is normally a minimum of 2 to 3 weeks, often longer. The system seems to encourage cases that wouldn't normally be classed as an emergency, to class them us such, to get an appointment in an appropriate amount of time. If you have an infected toe that you've had for a while and isn't improving, the chances are it will need antibiotics.To wait 3 weeks will probably mean it will get worse and possibly become an emergency. However, can you in all honesty say that it's a medical emergency now ?. So the choice is to a/call it an emergency to get an appointment on the day, or 2/Suffer for a few weeks, by which time it may well have become an emergency and be a lot more difficult, not to mention expensive to treat.? I'm certain that if you could get an appointment within a week to 10 days, the 'emergency' appointments would drop by a huge percentage. This can't be impossible, the same number of people will be seen, only on a more appropriate time scale. A system to encourage this must be possible surely.”