Can you beat this?

If you tell us where you live Esther1, we will all move there!

Oh My! I had heard about long waits for appointments! Our local surgery (and we are by no means a rural area, more market town suburb) has no appointment system. Anyone wishing to see a doctor, if which there are 4, just sits in a queue, morning or afternoon. The longest I have ever waited is 45 minutes.

You beat me, Littleannie
I rang my surgery every day for 2 weeks in early April, no appts available except for emergencies.
So I made an online one for May 3rd, went away to visit DS + DGC and came back to letter cancelling that appt and requesting I ring the surgery.
My appt is now booked for May 16th.

Not quite, called for a Drs appointment this morning, the receptionest said earliest was 22nd of May.

I could have had an emergency app or a telephone Drs call, but the last one was over week away.

As hopefully not urgent fingers crossed,
I will have to wait until 3 weeks on Wednesday to see a Dr that I am not registered with.
Hey ho.

Our village doctors is now at breaking point as as a new housing estate has been built, but with no proviso for another Drs surgery or for that matter another school.

I can same setup as your doctor 5 partners but tried to book on line appointment for my husband couple weeks ago and earliest 7 weeks ahead, unfortunately I think this is now the norm