“It’s not often you get a chance to speak to 200 Gp’s all at once…..but Minds and Voices had a captive audience last week of Gp’s from the Vale of York area.
Every month they have a training session and last weeks was on Dementia. A lovely person from the Clinical Commisioning Group invited Minds and Voices to create a 20 minute video highlighting our experience of Gp’s since we were diagnosed with dementia.
Me and my playmates all acknowledged the stress and huge workload Gp’s face, but none of us had had a positive experience in the beginning, the very time we need it…
We were told afterwards, how over 200 Gp’s had been spell bound by our video and also quite shocked at the content. Some vowed to make changes at their surgery, others thanked us for our honesty.
My particular Gp practise is outside the Vale of York area, so the woman who’d invited us, promised to send it onto East Riding and Hull CCG’s for them to cascade to their Gp’s, meaning hopefully, my Gp will hear my comments about the current phone only situation…..
