• 11 months ago
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.

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