NHS Walk In Centre

I just ranted about the NHS direct phone line, and in the same review raved about the walk-in-centres. A walk-in-centre is like a drop in medical surgery where you can wait to see a nurse without making an appointment. They are open out of doctors surgeries hours until 9pm on the evening. After getting little help from the phoneline, I decided yesterday to take my poorly 2 year old to our local Walk-in-centre. It was on our way home and only a 5 minute drive from our house so is almost as convinient as the phoneline for us. On arrival, the receptioist takes basic details of the patients name, DOB and address along with a summary of what ...  Read the complete review

~*THE SCENARIO*~ On Thursday evening, I had the very painful experience of falling over and landing knee cap down on a concrete sleeping policeman, (no I wasn't drunk, it was dark and I tripped!) Typical, I landed on the knee with an old skiing injury, so it's not the stronger of my two, and I grazed my knee through my jeans which wasn't very helpful at all! All weekend I've been hobbling about saying things like, "If it doesn't get better/if the swelling doesn't go down/if I still can't straighten it or put full pressure on it I'll get it looked at one Monday"...with the hope that it would all heal nicely and I could carry on as ...  Read the complete review

NHS Walk in centres are like a drop in doctors facility. You do not need to be registered there to use the service, and you can simply walk in, tell staff you would like an appointment, and wait to be seen. You can use the walk in centre in any town or city, it does not need to be your own, so you can go there if you are travelling about and out of your area. The walk ins are also usually open later than usual doctors, and open on weekends, so they give you the flexibility to go to the doctors out of your normal working hours. Sometimes the walk in centre has a long wait, which can be a matter of hours, which is a disadvantage, however the staff ...  Read the complete review

I cannot believe that Birmingham is the second city and the NHS are thinking of closing the NHS Walk-in centre down, without this valuable service it is back to long waits in A&E departments or a wait of perhaps 1 week or more to see a GP. What a shame, as Tony Blair has left office the Walk-in centre is about to close, What does Gordon Brown intend to do about this? I think he needs to earn his votes if he wishes to stay in power, so come on gordon show us what your worth, keep the Walk-in centre in Birmingham ...  Read the complete review

I was scrolling through the dooyoo topic list trying to find a category where I could tell you about an incredibly useful short course I recently attended about disability awareness. Without any luck I’m afraid and as I’ve not had much success in e-mailing my suggestions, I’ve had to put that one on the back burner for now. Still as one door closes another one opens and I happened to notice ‘NHS Walk-In Centres’ as a topic which I have had some experience of and one which I have a strong opinion. My son is at university in Exeter, which as you probably know is some distance from North Wales where we live. At the ...  Read the complete review