Off Topic Covid 19 restrictions have done one

Surely after one visit he can see you’re a boring sad ****? Unnecessary the other three.

 

So, doctors who get paid lot more now can’t do a much?
How has healthcare and society changed so much that more doctors per 100,000 are doing less?

 

Even some hospital staff think general practitioners are work-shy for the money they earn.

 

Really? For a start, 90% of GPs work part time these days, so numbers of registered GPs may have increased but it does not mean the number of appointments has. They have to spend far more time doing non-patient related admin. People live longer with chronic health conditions that would have killed them outright 50 years ago, meaning they need to see their GP more. Care in the community.

This is just off the top of my head. Do your own research if you want to know more.

 

Good for him. Seems like he gives a **** about his patients. Not all GPs are like that though.

 

You mean the likes of Crippen, Shipman and Hyde/Jeckyl?

 

^^^^This times the coefficient of whatever your particular prejudice is.^^^^

 

Psychosis cases rise in England as pandemic hits mental health
29% rise in referrals for first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021
Helen Pidd
Cases of psychosis have risen over the past two years in England as an increasing number of people experience hallucinations and delusional thinking amid the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic.

There was a 29% increase in the number of people referred to mental health services for their first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021, NHS data shows.

The rise continued throughout the spring, with 9,460 referred in May 2021, up 26% from 7,520 in May 2019.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness is urging the government to invest more in early intervention for psychosis to prevent further deterioration in people’s mental health from which it could take them years to recover.

It says the statistics provide some of the first concrete evidence to indicate the significant levels of distress experienced across the population during the pandemic.

A study earlier this month found that anxiety and depression around the world increased dramatically in 2020, with an estimated 76m extra cases of anxiety and 53m extra cases of major depressive disorder than would have been expected had Covid not struck. Women and young people were disproportionately affected, the researchers said.

Psychosis can involve seeing or hearing things that other people do not (hallucinations) and developing beliefs that are not based on reality (delusions), which can be highly distressing. It can be a symptom of mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression, but psychosis can also be a one-off, potentially triggered by a traumatic experience, extreme stress or drug and alcohol misuse.

Despite the continued pressure on mental health services, Rethink Mental Illness is highlighting the importance of rapid access to treatment to prevent further episodes of psychosis and reduce people’s risk of developing severe mental illness.

Nice guidelines for people experiencing a suspected first episode of psychosis state they should receive an assessment within two weeks. However, the charity fears that if the increase in referrals is sustained, more people will have to wait longer for vital treatment.

Brian Dow, the deputy chief executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “Psychosis can have a devastating impact on people’s lives. Swift access to treatment is vital to prevent further deterioration in people’s mental health which could take them years to recover from.

“These soaring numbers of suspected first episodes of psychosis are cause for alarm. We are now well beyond the first profound shocks of this crisis, and it’s deeply concerning that the number of referrals remains so high. As first presentations of psychosis typically occur in young adults, this steep rise raises additional concerns about the pressures the younger generation have faced during the pandemic.

“The pandemic has had a gamechanging effect on our mental health and it requires a revolutionary response. Dedicated additional funding for mental health and social care must go to frontline services to help meet the new demand, otherwise thousands of people could bear a catastrophic cost.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: “It is vital everyone can get the right support when they need it and we are delivering the fastest expansion in mental health services in NHS history, backed by an additional £2.3bn a year by 2023/24, benefiting hundreds of thousands more people.

“On top of this, we’ve invested an additional £500m this year to help people whose mental health has been particularly impacted by the pandemic. All NHSmental health providers have established 24/7 urgent helplines, which have answered around three million calls during the pandemic.”

‘My head told me to deal with hearing voices’
Tom Dunning, 30, has a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, social anxiety disorder and PTSD.

“I was about 22 or 23 when I first started experiencing symptoms of psychosis. It was pretty much overnight having after finishing my degree that my head told me to deal with hearing voices. Hearing them was a daily occurrence and it pretty much made me feel scared of myself because I didn’t think anything was wrong so I couldn’t tell anyone how I felt.

“I had experienced bullying in my childhood and now I felt like my own mental health was bullying me by the voices telling me to do things. Everyone around me started to notice differences and knew something was wrong but I was scared to acknowledge that. I eventually saw my GP and it was the first time that I thought I needed support but it was also the first time that I knew it was something I could get through.”

 

pre pandemic - I want to see my doctor so I queue outside the surgery for 20 minutes or so first thing and get to see him straight away - I need a follow up 7 days time, I go to reception and it's booked straight away

post pandemic - I want to see my doctor - I have 20 minute phone wait - I get told to fill in an on line 10 page e consult document - a few hours later I get email saying someone will ring me at some stage in the afternoon the following day - someone phones and tells me I need to see the doctor and books me in the next day - I have the appointment and he then tells me to take some tablets and come back next week - I am told I have to book the next week's appointment by e consult which asks the same 10 page questions over again but I fill them in and where possible I write - 'I need to book a repeat appointment because the doctor asked me to - I then get the email saying someone will ring the next day - someone calls who has no idea about the previous appointment - first they try and fob me off saying he's fully booked but then he relents and books me in - and some people still try and convince themselves that on line is better - NO IT ****ING ISN'T

 

and someone (or some people) are then paid / occupied reading those10 pages x 2, instead of helping people. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of 'systems thinking' will know such systems / processes are a massive part of the problem not the solution. (The answers are there but they don't want to know. Read John Seddon stuff).

 

And why are so many working part time?

 

Which is a huge problem with the NHS in general, too many admins, paper pushers taking out too much money. From what I remember, this all started with the Quangos in the early 90’s.

 

You know when you’ve been Quango’d!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59100114

 

US intelligence agencies, they don't have a reputation for accuracy.

CIA is not known as can't investigate anything for nothing,