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21,000 Accrington and Pendle patients' GP practices merge (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Take it that the Accrington branch of this set up is what was the Avenue Parade surgery can't remember its name, from whats been said on here about that practice looks like things ain't going to gt better anytime soon:(

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Peel House was the one on Avenue Parade...they moved into Pals.(they aren't mentioned)
The Acorn Medical Centre is the one on Blackburn Road in Accrington. I'm not sure which doctors use the Acorn Medical centre, but they aren't from Peel house.

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Thanks Margaret

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Help is at hand.Take 4 times a day,

Accrington Acorn Primary Health Care Centre

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No thanks Beni I'm already taking enough as it is:D

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A little websearch reveals two medical practices at the Acorn Centre
Dr T Manjooran & Partners, Hyndburn Medical Practice
Dr MA Sajid, Eagle Medical Practice

I visit that centre for chiropody every two months and always find the cavernous waiting area very sparsly populated by never more than 6 people.

This lavish building, with its 'community art':rolleyes: must be costing a bomb to lease and heat.
It looks like this latest move will be an attempt to make it more financially viable.

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Big is best is not the way I see things;)

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It is truly a wonderful building as is the Pals surgery and one day in the distant future it will be paid for.:confused::confused:

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That gallery glass window must have cost a fair whack
look here -
BB5 UK - Google Maps
...and those odd bits of shaped concrete on the paved area.

There is more frivolity inside. The atrium roof light is filled with coloured streamers which block the light. They look like long strings of paper bow shapes (not crotcheted, so not really art :rolleyes:)

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More centralisation - less power for the individual! What was that on the front page of the Mail I think it was last week, that the tories are thinking about having a new central call center which we must all call to make appointments with out GPs! It will not be at our surgery - so what happens if something goes wrong? Sounds like a damned silly idea to me.

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Don't know and don't really care, my docs just round the corner and you don't need appointments either;)

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Dr Manjooran was my doctor when I lived in Accy all those years ago. Looks like he has done well for himself.

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Quite a few people i know rated him june, some real clowns at the acorn now.:eek:

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That is a stupid idea

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So what would you prefer then?

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Why is is a stupid idea - at least you can get to see a doctor when you need to and you don't have to ring an 0844 number and pay over the odds in telephone charges to contact them.

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Its stupid because I have sat in open surgeries for hours waiting for my turn with a load of ill people coughing and spluttering all over the place.

I phone my Doctor on a 01254 number and usually get to see him at a suitable time without much difficulty.

Open surgeries are ok if you don't work. Those of us that do need appointments to fit in with work.

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not from where I'm sitting it ain't;)

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When I lived in Hassy they had appointments surgery, I used to ring up and ask for an appointment, oh we have nothing until a week next pan cake Tuesday, that's fine I'll have an house call then I sick now not in 10 days time, somehow they always used to fit me in;)

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They don't do house calls anymore do they? Unless your hearts stopped lol

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Well that maybe the case with your Quack, but mine still turns out if needed, he even calls in or rings to see if things are okay, can't beat that;)

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But you moved from the wilderness into Gods Country :rolleyes::D

Its ok when you can just wonder down to the surgery after Jeremy Kyle has finished and stick a bottle of cold tea in your snotty faced kids gob while it sits in a dirty nappy in an even more dirty pram for an hour or two chatting with your mates about Jezza but some of us do work and need to be able to arrange appointments around work not around daytime TV.

oops rant over

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whats up? did you miss Jezza this morning? don't worry its on again this afternoon :D

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You want to try and get an appointment at Pals........you either die or recover before you get to see a doctor there.......and another, thing you can't get through on the damn phone to book an appointment....the only way you can do it is go down to the surgery for 08.30 and stand in the queue....sometimes you will be lucky and see a doctor(though maybe not your own doctor)....and sometimes you will have to see a nurse to see if your condition warrants an opion by a GP.
This is not good when you are feeling rough as rope.

They should concentrate on treating the sick folks and leave the well alone.....but alas that doesn't tick the governmental boxes!

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i aint seen me own doc at the pals fer approx 18 months, last time i asked to see him i was told 14 days to wait n he wasn't on holiday, but i would have been by that time, if i hadn't popped me clogs, ya obviously have no concept of these practices neil, Paris is at a different docs, they have NO appointment needed at mornings, Afternoons ya need one, aint rocket science that works fer everyone.;)

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Not true, been with practices that do it both ways and I don't see why I should have to wait a couple of hours to see a Doc just because they cant sort out the appointments system properly.

I don't have a problem with my Doc. Maybe you need to move to another practice.

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That's good, so maybe you can ask him for some happy Pils, to counter Grumpy Neil ! Happy Neil is so much nicer ! ;)

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Not like you to have rant Neil, you'll have the mods out with the cutters again:D:D:p

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Only ever met one miself Dave:D

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if ya read my post, that way ya wouldn't have to wait 2 hrs ya could make n appointment n it suits everyone, coarse it wouldn't suit a selfish git.:D

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It isn't that easy. Practices will pick and choose who they want, and the really good practices(where are they, then) are usually over-subscribed.
When i joined Peel House it was a really good practice.......with Doctors that I knew and trusted(many of them had trained on the wards that I had myself worked on)....now it has got too big and is very impersonal.......you never see the same doctor twice, so how do they maintain continuity...short answer is that they don't.
To them it doesn't seem to matter, but to patients it is of paramount importance.

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I never took you as a selfish fella

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lifes full of surprises.:D

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and a lot of them are not pleasant!

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Now,Now Neil aint so bad really.:D

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He's a great Goat herder:D:D

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How did we manage before almost every house had a phone or everyone had a mobile? Yes, I remember sitting in the Surgery Waiting Room for what seemed like hours, but probably no more than an hour - always in the evening.
Group practices seem to be a great idea - for the doctors and the nurses that are employed there - overheads are shared.
Dr McFadden and then Dr Quinn seemed to manage OK without a nurse or receptionist up to the early '60s and they did house visits!

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Barrie......that was before the meddling governments got involved. GP's back then saw sick people....and the sick benefitted......now GP's are involved in preventative medicine(and I'm not saying that is a bad thing) and it gets harder and harder for those who are ill to see a doctor.......oh, yes and before anyone has a go......I don't go to the doctor for piffling ailments that I can sort out for myself.(as those folk who know me will testify)

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Think its life today Margaret, you only have to listen to the things people ring 999 for, speaks volumes

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Yes, John......that just shows how very self centred some folk are.......don't they understand the concept of 'emergency'?

I wouldn't visit my GP ever.....I only go when I am in a half Nelson and being railroaded up that hill to the practice........and I do consider that I am lucky to have reasonable health for my age.

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Whats that got to do with the price of fish :confused:

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A lot if your having an heart attack and some nob head is taking up time with a lost false nail down the back of a settee:rolleyes:

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And what has that got to do with GP's? I think you are suffering from snow blindness :p:D

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Maybe ya have no concept of what it took to get in wi a practice when i returned from living abroad? believe me was ruddy hard n summat i have no intention of disclosing on here.;)

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Maybe not, when we moved here we just filling in the paperwork and moved surgeries.

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how long ago was that neil? seems things are different now, mine was 10 yrs ago, mind may not be the same if yer just switching docs in this country?:confused: seems getting stuff transferred from abroad aint as simple as it should be.

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Especially if your coming from Outer Mongolia:D