Had a visit from the post stroke care nurse on Friday, hopefully my last, and in the course of the chat and checking I still had my marbles it came out that I no longer trusted my doctor and was generally disgusted with the treatments and medications he prescribed. She explained that since the Labour government changed the GP contracts they were allowed to get paid bonuses for certain treatments and it was therefore more profitably to: check blood pressure & prescribe treatment, cholesterol medication, flu jabs being the top money earners.  It was hardly worth their while dealing with sick people and they had not made a house call for about twenty years.

She also stated that she has a lot of older stroke victims that are more or less house bound and complain that when they try to get the doctor to call they are fobbed off with a telephone diagnostic or told to phone for an ambulance and go to A & E. Is it any wonder they are over worked?

Hopefully some of this will be changed back now as GPs get told to get back to patient care and away from admin and profiteering.  Had to laugh at the news that if you manage to live to seventy five, they plan to allocate a personal doctor responsible for your health care. If I’d have listened to mine I am pretty sure I’d b e crippled or dead by now.