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A lot of the time, if I actually manage to get an appointment, it's not even with a GP but a nurse, or now they even have paramedics and other similar people doing appointments at the surgery. These have been even worse than the GP. The nurses always say they don't understand blood test results and have to ask a GP and get back to me, and usually no-one gets back to me and I have to chase them up. When my folate deficiency symptoms started and we had no idea what was causing it, I was first given an appointment with a nurse who said she would ask the GP what to do and get back to me. She never did. Months passed as I waited, always expecting a call and my symptoms got much worse, in the end I kept trying to get an appointment with a GP and eventually got one and they said "Oh it looks like the nurse just forgot to follow it up."

One time I went with a UTI and was given an appointment with a paramedic. He was extremely unprofessional, made inappropriate sexual remarks, didn't know which part of the body was affected by a UTI and refused to give me antibiotics so my situation deteriorated. I actually ended up making a complaint about him but nothing came of it.

It's just utterly impossible to get any adequate treatment at all.