Annual Check-ups

Im on medication and have been for years. No one ever calls me to have a check up or reviews what im taking. I've not seen anyone from cardio unit since first put on meds for heart issue nearly 6 years ago. I feel neglected!!🙄

The hospital (rheumatology) requested my surgery check my vitamin B level. Whilst taking the blood I remarked that I had not had my under active thyroid checked for a while. She checked and it was five years ago. She then berated me for not getting it done. In the past, I was called in, now it is my responsibility, fine but it would have been nice to be told.

No MOT since joining this practice eight years ago. I do get a call about an asthma review but that is quite pointless, how can you check a person’s breathing over the phone?

I don’t think our surgery knows what texts are, ButterandJam! It’s weird how their use of technology is minimal because most of the staff are quite young, 50 and under, I’d say. You’d think they’d want to use it.

There were no check ups at our previous surgery in a different area, either.

Gin

The hospital (rheumatology) requested my surgery check my vitamin B level. Whilst taking the blood I remarked that I had not had my under active thyroid checked for a while. She checked and it was five years ago. She then berated me for not getting it done. In the past, I was called in, now it is my responsibility, fine but it would have been nice to be told.

No MOT since joining this practice eight years ago. I do get a call about an asthma review but that is quite pointless, how can you check a person’s breathing over the phone?

I agree about asthma reviews. I get them, and mostly they are pointless. I’ve been using inhalers since before most of the nurses were born, and my ‘technique’ won’t have changed since my last appointment. Every now and then, however, a new drug has been made available, and the review gives me a chance to make an appointment with a GP if the nurse thinks it necessary.

What I don’t like about reviews is that I can see all my records online, and often the reviews tick boxes in error. They assume answers to questions that were never asked, presumably to save time.

Doodledog, I have the same problem with errors after my annual review. As you say, answers to questions are assumed and boxes are ticked which claim I've had certain information. I'm not so bothered about the information, but I am bothered about my smoking status, weight, exercise and a couple of other things. I go through the record every year and send in the corrections. They do get corrected, but it does get a bit tedious.

When my annual blood test results are available on the app, I go through the whole set of results carefully. Twice in recent years the GP supposedly ‘reviewing’ the results has missed changes in my thyroid function that actually required changes in my medication. In both cases I had to contact the surgery to have the situation rectified. Totally and completely unacceptable. And don’t get me started on the serious errors in post clinic appointment letters and hospital discharge letters.

And then there was the time the path lab didn’t do the potassium level when that was the main reason I was having the blood test. And I had to point out the omission to the GP and then have another blood test which involved the cost of taxis to and from the surgery.

How strange that you find the offer of free check ups anything other than a welcome addition to your life. You are getting a £200+ freebie that monitors your health, offers advice and potentially free prescription drugs to bolster your health. Looking a gift horse in the mouth comes to mind.

I don't get an annual mot as such but as a type 2 diabetic I have my full diabetes check once a year when they do full bloods, weigh me, check my feet with a filament (i have peripheral neuropathy in my feet) and check the pulses in my feet/ankles. it's pretty thorough and I have a consultation with the diabetes nurse when the results come in.
other than that I have a medication check when I resist statins as they don't agree with me.
I book bowel cancer checks and mammograms every year - i'm 78 almost 79. in fact i've just had both tests done and they're both clear.
I ring for the bowel cancer check and they send me the kit. and I ring my local mammogram dept and book.
I got told that I was being pro-active with my health care!!

An annual check-up? I can't even get an appointment with my GP for love nor money! I recently had to be taken by ambulance to A&E and on being discharged, was told to make an appointment with my GP to get further blood tests done. That was over a month ago and I'm still trying!

My surgery used to do a full blood profile and a yearly check up with the asthma nurse .
Now they ask you to fill out a form detailing weight etc .
Or you can speak to the pharmacist.
It's taken me six weeks to get an appointment with him

My friend applied for a job at the surgery and said that it's the worse job that she's had and resigned as soon as possible having taken sick leave.

I am being pressured to take statins and I don’t want to

Momac55

I am being pressured to take statins and I don’t want to

Then just say no. It’s your choice.

I have a long-term conditions check once a year around the time of my birthday. I do height, weight and blood pressure at home and send the results in via the Surgery's Engage Consult app and then go in for a blood test. If there's a problem my GP will text me.

statins give doctors huge profits, they want the whole country to take them, our forebears managed perfectly well without them on a worse diet

OH and I get annual check ups, our is next week, blood tests blood pressure ,weight,

My husband isn’t on any meds, he’s almost 65 I never been asked to come in for a mot.
He now has a mole that has popped on his head, so want him to phone & book a Gp visit & also see the nurse for bp, & blood work.

MT62

My husband isn’t on any meds, he’s almost 65 I never been asked to come in for a mot.
He now has a mole that has popped on his head, so want him to phone & book a Gp visit & also see the nurse for bp, & blood work.

He’s hasn’t ever been asked 🤦‍♀️oh for an edit button!

Oh & prostate check up

Esmay

My surgery used to do a full blood profile and a yearly check up with the asthma nurse .
Now they ask you to fill out a form detailing weight etc .
Or you can speak to the pharmacist.
It's taken me six weeks to get an appointment with him

My friend applied for a job at the surgery and said that it's the worse job that she's had and resigned as soon as possible having taken sick leave.

There’s only one person at our surgery pharmacy that seems to know what they’re doing. They told us they’d moved to another surgery as ours was so bad an only to move back again because the other one was even worse. Prescriptions are never ready, although when told they’re not ready it’s because they haven’t bothered to look on the shelf.

Our forebears died younger, often due to clogged arteries, something statins can help reduce.

monami

statins give doctors huge profits, they want the whole country to take them, our forebears managed perfectly well without them on a worse diet

They do not, they get points through the Quality Outcomes Framework for managing cardiovascular disease.
Or do you have different accredited evidence monami?

I’m 78 and three quarters and have never had one of these check ups!

I should have had annual checks from 70 - 75 years. Had nothing for 15 years. Discovered this 3 months ago when optician was shocked to learn I'd no tests. Blood pressure can affect eyesight so she referred me for a check, hence discovering the 15 year oversight. Nurse checked weight and blood pressure, both fine. Blood sent for tests. 2 weeks later invited to see GP to go over results which were all fine. GP did comment I had never been given statins and at my age now 79, I would not be prescribed them. GP told me to arrange a check up every birthday. Couldn't believe I'd had no checks for the recommended 5 years never mind 15 years.

Visiting surgery with painful knee, Dr said you haven't had you're annual check for 6 years, so booked me in and was called back due to high cholesterol, finally talked me into statins, but pleased to say after 3 months my cholesterol has halved , so I'm in a good place with that. Still haven't sorted my knee, but today have had to go for Dvt test , and that was clear, so move onto next stage for answers,, 😁🙄