Comment by veltas
3 days ago
That's the case where I live, there's only a few surgeries I'm allowed to register at and they all have this problem. I think there is some manipulation of statistics the surgeries do to prevent more being created, and to hide the difficulty in getting an appointment. For example rather than having 6 month waiting list, they don't make appointments more than a few weeks in advance, so you just can't get an appointment and it looks like nobody waits more than a few weeks. I think while surgeries are allowed to do this we'll never understand the real capacity.
When you say "surgeries", are you using what I understand to be the UK word for the US phrase "doctor's offices"?
Yes
Cool. Thanks for clarifying.
Man, it should NOT be permitted to play with the "waiting list" stats in the way you describe. I wish you had someone who gave a fuck about (and could do something about) the problem to report it to... that's just bullshit.