Given Monday nights experience of spending a total of 16 hours in urgent care/A&E etc. to get my Autistic son looked at while he was in a huge amount of pain I’d say the country was definetly going to the dogs. Police were in A&E 5 times with various idiots in handcuffs, all were seen and treated straight away while elderly, and obviously very unwell, people sat for over 12 hours to finally self-discharge as they were simply too worn out to sit any longer 🙁 My GP surgery has now changed to a 24/48hr first contact system, someone will ring you back to arrange an appointment which will be in 2 to 4 weeks time!
We struggle to make an appointment 6 to 8 weeks if you are lucky with the online appointment system, it was bad before Covid it is abysmal now. Once you get an appointment the GP is less than interested.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.