Well the doctor has done it now!

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My mother has been trying to get a nhs appointment with a thyroid dr. her gp

said it would be a waste of nhs funds to do that and she could have a private

appointment only, so we had one on the 11th November and he did the bloods on

the nhs but he said he thinks she has arterial fribrilation and needs a ecg, not

sure how long you will wait on the nhs we can do one now if you pay, so we did,

and yes it showed she has AF. the dr faxed the letter to my mothers gp that day,

not heard a thing he requested a nhs referral to him and that she needed to see

a cardiac dr. Anyway on Wednesday this week my mother was very unwell, I hadnt

seen her but had spoken on the phone the night before, rang the surgery to get

an appointment that day told it does not work like that and somone will ring me

at 10.30am they did it was another dr from the practice, made an appointment

with the dr that refused the nhs refferal for endo. I decided to wait in the car

as i did not want to see him it would have been nasty, anyway she got called in

to see another dr not him. The dr did not examine my mother at all but did tell

her they were not worried about her AF gave her a prescription and told her to

come back Friday if no better, to be honest i was expecting her to be sent

straight to hospital she was clearly very unwell. Oh forgot as my mother was

leaving the room the dr said you dont look well!

Anyway, took her home, i had another engagement and had to go off right away but

was not long and went back to my mothers home, was going to go get her

prescription, but she looked so unwell i phoned my sister and my eldest

daughter, sister lives to far away, my daughter arrived and we decided to get an

ambulance, they were fantastic they took my mothers temp and it was 39.1 and as

she has copd and other ailments they deicded to take her to hospital, they did

ecg in the ambulance before they left and told me she has af.

The hospital has arranged for some more heart tests which her gp was refusing.

They are in a few weeks time

The hospital put her on warfrin straight away and iv antibiotics they have been

fantastic.

What do i now do about my mothers gp who still refuses to refer her.

Love

Carol