£2 to see a gp

Would u pay £2 to see a gp? Fee only required if u request the appointment and not if its been arranged by the gp eg if they say come back in three weeks for review or for review of chronic conditions.

Would a £2 charge decrease how often u made an appointment or would it not affect this and u would still have made all the appointmwnts that u have made in the past.

We already pay for prescriptions. And hospital parking.

I'm surprised we don't already charge for missed appointments tbh. At one of the hospitals I attend, there's a notice up of how appointments were missed in at least one department last month. (which is a certain amount of hours) But I have been in the situation at least once where I've supposedly missed appointments that weren't made. And then there was that appointment I'd supposedly made which I actually hadn't. I only knew because I'd received a phone call that morning remidning me of it.

I honestly wish there was a good way to penalise people who miss an appointment. It takes 30 seconds to call and say you can't make it. In the meantime there are people sitting waiting for a drop out appointment and you can't be arsed. Like, the whole idea of the NHS is that we are all kinda helping each other out by paying into it. Then you get selfish people taking up scarce appointments and not even turning up. At my practice, if you don't turn up they don't allocate it to someone else. The doctor spends that whole 10 minutes waiting for you to turn up. I would love to say someone should have to pay or is blocked from making an appointment again until they've been spoken to about it (my gym does this if you book a class and don't turn up) particularly for repeat offenders. But because it's in a health context, we seem to automatically baulk at the idea of penalising people even though they have no consideration for the other people THEY have penalised by wasting an appointment

We already pay for prescriptions. And hospital parking.

chronic conditions could be exempt from it however im not convinced people with chronic conditions need to be seen that often,

Some of us do. Especially when it can take months to get the right medication. Or even the right diagnosis.

thats not frequent appointments for management of a chronic condition though, thats frequent appointments as you do not have a diagnosis which is separate, for the actual chronic condition you dont need to be seen frequently

Would you make spelling mistakes if you had to pay 2 quid for each one?

Would u pay £2 to see a gp? Fee only required if u request the appointment and not if its been arranged by the gp eg if they say come back in three weeks for review or for review of chronic conditions.

Would a £2 charge decrease how often u made an appointment or would it not affect this and u would still have made all the appointmwnts that u have made in the past.

You clearly don't have a clue. I was seen at least every month for 5 months when I was first diagnosed with asthma because of how difficult it was to control it. When I first started having migraines, I was being seen at least every month for well over a year. I was then sent to neurology and I've had a lot of appointments since then, partly because of the problems the medications has caused and because of how difficult it is to get the condition under control without causing me serious health problems.

For some chronic conditions, people do need to be seen frequently.

Technically I don't have a chronic condition but that's because they haven't been able to diagnose my pain. So this that mean for my 3 weekly appointments for painkillers and check up I would have to pay? I really don't think this would be fair. Anyway I live in Scotland so not extremely worried because this would have to happen in England first before it affected me. I think it would be a great shame, not just for me but for everyone, if the NHS which is supposed to be 'free at the point of need' started charging for something as little as an appointment.