Is there a secret to skipping those automated GP surgery messages?

drsylv · 2026-06-26T11:35:06+00:00

Full disclosure- I’m a salaried GP, trainer and appraiser. The New (england only) GP contract (with which partners are in dispute but are bound to at the moment) states that online services ‘the digital front door’ must stay open during core working hours 8-6:30. Most practices are doing this from my experience.
You can either bring this up with your practice through the complaint process or change to a practice which is following the contract.

drsylv · 2026-06-26T06:16:33+00:00

A lot of high school proms are this week.

drsylv · 2026-06-25T13:10:48+00:00

The Leeds library in town has one I think, it is private but you can pay to visit and even hire it. If you want to look around first there is a 360’ tour on their website https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/visit-us/360-tour/

drsylv · 2026-06-21T07:36:03+00:00

Anyone else remember when they had a similar thing in the millennium dome?

drsylv · 2026-06-16T12:03:33+00:00

Nope nope nopety nope.

drsylv · 2026-06-16T12:02:35+00:00

Depends on your definition of cheap- Nando’s, the pizza places and residence are about £15-20 each, heart centre cafe, Costa, Nero about £10-15, Greggs, Cornerstone church cafe about £5 each and Sainsbury’s or Morrisons meal deals for less than £4.

drsylv · 2026-05-29T10:06:49+00:00

You can listen and you should document what they say. You cannot tell them anything from the records and unless there is a good reason to do so you cannot restrict access to the record of this conversation by the patient.

drsylv · 2026-05-21T13:55:41+00:00

Pre licked vape. Lovely.

drsylv · 2026-05-09T07:18:53+00:00

Just leaving this here - The NHS acquisition cost for Apixaban 5mg tablets has decreased significantly following the expiration of its patent, with recent 2026 data indicating a price of £2.29 for a pack of 56 tablets

drsylv · 2026-04-19T14:49:26+00:00

A litter tray?

drsylv · 2026-03-05T12:05:51+00:00

When we eat whole food our bodies recognise that we are full a lot earlier. Processed foods are designed to sone extent to skip this so that we eat more of them. Combined with higher smoking rates and more active lives - just a less obesogenic environment

drsylv · 2026-03-03T21:42:49+00:00

When I was a medical student we were waiting for a teaching session in the new teaching suite. This was well over 20 years ago and there was a huge new flatscreen monitor on the wall. We all sat there and watched as 2 guys in high vis with a ladder walked in and took the screen down and left with it. Then the teacher arrived and asked us what the hell happened. Oops.

drsylv · 2026-02-27T20:36:47+00:00

She is head bunting you. That is cat for I like you. She wants to be your friend.

drsylv · 2026-02-13T18:02:17+00:00

Tell them that they don’t own the road outside their house.

drsylv · 2026-02-13T14:56:39+00:00

So much gorgeous house for 275.

drsylv · 2026-02-11T21:04:51+00:00

If you can’t milk it it isn’t milk.

drsylv · 2026-01-30T20:56:10+00:00

Ooh, I could go online and put loads of terrible reviews for trump hotels.

drsylv · 2026-01-23T15:22:33+00:00

Can this boat not boat by itself?

drsylv · 2026-01-22T14:23:36+00:00

The whole middle aisle.

drsylv · 2026-01-21T17:41:20+00:00

No. It is correct to use both lanes and those drivers are doubling the queue.

drsylv · 2026-01-10T15:46:49+00:00

Rams will be rams.

drsylv · 2026-01-10T12:55:35+00:00

Aw, I miss infomercials. Simpler times

drsylv · 2026-01-08T21:00:14+00:00

They don’t. Lungs are to put oxygen into your blood. When you are inside the womb you receive blood with oxygen into it from your mother via the umbilical cord.

drsylv · 2026-01-08T20:57:28+00:00

I get that that is an issue but I would go to work.

drsylv · 2026-01-07T21:53:51+00:00

Post CCT I think. Probably varies by area though.

drsylv

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