Do you find it hard to get a doctor's appointment?

We asked the people of Leeds do you find it hard to get a doctor's appointment

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00:00 Oh yeah definitely, like, well you're away at least a week aren't you?

00:04 Unless you don't ring up at like, well you have to ring me up when it opens and then

00:07 usually they're gone after like 15 minutes so yeah.

00:09 To be honest with you I don't bother.

00:11 What do you think needs to be done to make the situation better then?

00:14 There does need to be more investment but at the same time, this is not going to be

00:20 a popular opinion but I do believe in partial privatisation of the NHS, that's my personal

00:24 opinion.

00:25 I just think that the way it is at the moment, the NHS is something that is constantly going

00:33 to need more money and there's probably not, there's probably like, there's an infinite

00:36 number on it, there's not a finite figure that will ever solve it and it's just going

00:39 to keep growing and growing as the population ages.

00:41 Yeah, it's only going to get worse and I think, yeah there needs to be more investment but

00:46 at the same time I think unless we accept that at some point people are going to need

00:50 to start paying for stuff that, yeah that's, it's not going to change personally.

00:55 It depends.

00:56 I found the doctor about two weeks ago, got an appointment within about 24 hours.

01:03 My wife two days ago got one that night, it was a telephone appointment but that was all

01:10 she needed but it is quite concerning, the lack of availability of GP appointments when

01:20 people actually need one.

01:23 You ask for an appointment, you might get one in seven days time and by that time the

01:30 issues that you have have passed and the urgency of it is not recognised.

01:38 What do you think needs to be done to make things better then?

01:42 There needs to be, I think, investment in the health service.

01:47 A lot of money, I have to say, at the present time is spent elsewhere when really the core

01:55 issues that people, the core issues that people are affected by are passed over and people

02:05 are talking about boats that are crossing the channel, well that might impact upon some

02:13 people but the reality really is that the grass roots of the situation, we need investment

02:24 here for people who are paying taxes, paying national insurance and really are suffering

02:30 as a consequence of a lack of investment and a misdirection of funding that is not there.