[Margaret Pilkington]

Lettie, I am sorry to hear of the hoops you have had to go through to get a diagnosis and a referral.

I don’t know about you, but I find it galling to have given so much of my life to the NHS(and I know that you have too) and then find that my needs (or more accurately my husbands needs) are treated so badly.

My husband collapsed at home with a bilateral pulmonary embolism(large enough to have killed him) he spent 21 hours on a trolley in A&E. Triage meant nothing….or he would have been on a ward quickly and being anti-coagulated.
He was given none of his essential heart meds during this time….so was at risk of s stroke or a further heart attack.
Now if I had no medical background then I would not have recognised the dangers in this.
Maybe I would have worried less.
This all happened in November. He was told he would be seen by a cardiologist and a respiratory consultant.
Here we are in July…no appointments with either of these specialists.

I do not go to any of these invitations that make the GP’s business healthier…being a GP is about making money, not looking after patients