This is your doctor speaking. As a mark of respect for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we’ll be switching off your life support.
What I need y’all to understand is, when the NHS gives you an appointment they literally give you an appointment. You don’t get to schedule it, they hand you one and you had better be able to attend. If you can’t for any reason and need to reschedule, even if it’s because they handed you an appointment on your wedding day or you have to go to a funeral or (and this has happened to me) you already have a different NHS appointment at that time, the process of rescheduling it is:
- you have to wait months for another one
- it’s written down in your record that you “refused the appointment” you were given.
- ie. that you are at fault for any inconvenience or subsequent complications stemming from your appointment being delayed by, again, months.
The NHS is so broken that they will literally put your health at risk and then be affronted if you so much as question why they would do so.
