Letter: Young doctors? No, I want my experienced GP

Letter: At my GP's surgery the long established senior doctors have a two weeks or longer waiting list for appointments.

I tried on May 11 to make an appointment with one of three long-serving established doctors at my surgery, and was told May 26 was the earliest I could get an appointment.

It appears that if you have an urgent need to see a doctor you must see one of the young new doctors who probably does not know you.

So this means patients with urgent medical needs needing immediate appointments are seen by less experienced doctors.

Those with chronic illnesses who can book an appointment two weeks in advance see doctors with more experience.

Surely this is the wrong way round and poses a risk to patients with conditions requiring immediate accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

The doctors who can give more accurate immediate diagnosis and correct treatment are more likely to be those with the greatest experience, not new young doctors, some of whom may be foreign with a poor grasp of English.

In the long run the cost of not receiving appropriate immediate medical intervention is likely to be more to patients and to the NHS in terms of pain and suffering and prolongation of diseases which may then become chronic.

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