Bad Gateway

[Arpangel]

A few Bad Gateway messages this morning, plus everything really slow, or not posting/loading.

[ef37a]

Same here Tony at about 6am.

"504 error Bad Gateway". FYI I am with BT on Firefox and W10.

Seems pretty slick now.

Dave.

[Drew Stephenson]

Obviously just a warning about the perils of being awake at 6 in the morning...

[ef37a]

Obviously just a warning about the perils of being awake at 6 in the morning...

You wouldn't chuckle mate! I actually awoke at five to two! My left leg was on fire and it and foot aching like a b**std!

At 10am the previous day I had had it dressed and a compressive bandage put on. This was my third bandage fitting and the other two were fine.

I made a drink and phoned 111 and within the hour a doctor told me it would be best to remove the bandage. I am now awaiting a response from my GP.

Not being able to access the forum was adding insult to injury!

Dave.

[Arpangel]

Yes, back to normal here too, at least, the forum is!
Sounds awful Dave, has the doctor got back to you?

[Drew Stephenson]

Ugh, sorry to hear that Dave. Hope things get redressed (in both senses) quickly.

[OneWorld]

Obviously just a warning about the perils of being awake at 6 in the morning...

If I were waking at 6 in the morning I'd be phoning 111 too, that's an ungodly hour of the day!

For the record, I had duff gateway message for both eBay and BBC earlier today, twas only a brief outage though. What has been somewhat more inconvenient is power outage, it only goes off for a minute or so. Went off right in the middle of the kettle boiling to make a cuppa.

[ef37a]

Yes, back to normal here too, at least, the forum is!
Sounds awful Dave, has the doctor got back to you?

Corse not Tone! I had an email reply from 'the office' to say that they were going to inform the nurse who did my dressing last Monday and get back to me.
That was at 09:46. Not a dickie bird.

The 'crunch' will come early hours Tuesday, if I wake up in pain again without the compression I shall be a bit worried and onto 111 PD bloody Q!

Dave.

[Folderol]

Yes, back to normal here too, at least, the forum is!
Sounds awful Dave, has the doctor got back to you?

Corse not Tone! I had an email reply from 'the office' to say that they were going to inform the nurse who did my dressing last Monday and get back to me.
That was at 09:46. Not a dickie bird.

The 'crunch' will come early hours Tuesday, if I wake up in pain again without the compression I shall be a bit worried and onto 111 PD bloody Q!

Dave.

Only just picked this up
Really sorry to hear you're having so much trouble.

[Arpangel]

Dave, a friend has blistering lymphedema and he’s in a similar position, he has to have his bandages regularly changed, he’s having loads of trouble with them "forgetting" or just withdrawing the service.
Things are bad.

[ef37a]

Well the good news Will and Tony is that I had a good night with just the usual 'get ups' due to the diuretics.

I shall now just have to sit by the phone until the surgery gets back to me but at least I am no worse off than I was two weeks ago!

I have to say, the Out of Hours Special GP service works very well. late night weekday and daytime weekend treatment and the place never seems rammed unlike A&E and people get seen very quickly.
I just hope the doctors and nurses running it are getting a suitable wedge for the anti-social hours?

Dave.

[Arpangel]

Well the good news Will and Tony is that I had a good night with just the usual 'get ups' due to the diuretics.

I shall now just have to sit by the phone until the surgery gets back to me but at least I am no worse off than I was two weeks ago!

I have to say, the Out of Hours Special GP service works very well. late night weekday and daytime weekend treatment and the place never seems rammed unlike A&E and people get seen very quickly.
I just hope the doctors and nurses running it are getting a suitable wedge for the anti-social hours?

Dave.

Do you remember when a doctor would actually do a house call? and I never got refused an appointment.
Or have I taken too much tramadol?

[ef37a]

Well the good news Will and Tony is that I had a good night with just the usual 'get ups' due to the diuretics.

I shall now just have to sit by the phone until the surgery gets back to me but at least I am no worse off than I was two weeks ago!

I have to say, the Out of Hours Special GP service works very well. late night weekday and daytime weekend treatment and the place never seems rammed unlike A&E and people get seen very quickly.
I just hope the doctors and nurses running it are getting a suitable wedge for the anti-social hours?

Dave.

Do you remember when a doctor would actually do a house call? and I never got refused an appointment.
Or have I taken too much tramadol?

Ha! Ha! The last time I had a doctor* visit my home was about 40 years ago when I was in intense pain from sciatica and literally could not get off the floor.

But such visits now would be a massive waste of their time. I doubt there is any health condition that could not be handled by an ambulance crew or/and paramedics?

And, do we REALLY want untrained young doctors in ummarked cars teararsing through modern traffic? "!! Do many such docs' actually own a car?

*Not sure what the capsules were he gave me but you put one under your tongue and ten later they could have sawn your leg off and you would not have given a ****!

Dave.

[Essex Boi]

I do hope you're being looked after, Dave and get attended to soon. The entry point to the NHS for many of us - the local GP - is a hit and miss affair, with vast differences in service between even neighbouring surgeries. I moved less than six miles across town (it's the same NHS trust) and went from being able to walk into the surgery and see my GP without an appointment, to having to 'phone every day in the the hope of attaining one of the hens' teeth appointments. Personally, I'd like to see a truly National Health Service with a consistent service standard for all.

I just hope the doctors and nurses running it are getting a suitable wedge for the anti-social hours?

Each of us (in the UK) is likely to have a view regarding pay for staff in the NHS and I'm not going to advance an opinion here. What I will say is the media don't control the court of public opinion. Pay scales are published and we can make up our own minds. The rates before the recent pay settlement are here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/system/fil ... INAL_0.pdf

[Arpangel]

I’m at the hospital as I write, a wry humorous Irish nurse welcomed us and said to my partner “are you sure you know “this” man
Great staff doing their best.
I’m in the MRI department, sitting in front of an enormous door with a yellow metal cage all around it, and a big sign on the floor,

DANGER STRONG MAGNETIC FIELD ALWAYS ON
AUTHORISED PERSONAL ONLY



Talk about a bad gateway.

[ef37a]

Well the good news Will and Tony is that I had a good night with just the usual 'get ups' due to the diuretics.

I shall now just have to sit by the phone until the surgery gets back to me but at least I am no worse off than I was two weeks ago!

I have to say, the Out of Hours Special GP service works very well. late night weekday and daytime weekend treatment and the place never seems rammed unlike A&E and people get seen very quickly.
I just hope the doctors and nurses running it are getting a suitable wedge for the anti-social hours?

Dave.

Do you remember when a doctor would actually do a house call? and I never got refused an appointment.
Or have I taken too much tramadol?

Ha! Ha! The last time I had a doctor* visit my home was about 40 years ago when I was in intense pain from sciatica and literally could not get off the floor.

But such visits now would be a massive waste of their time. I doubt there is any health condition that could not be handled by an ambulance crew or/and paramedics?

And, do we REALLY want untrained young doctors in ummarked cars teararsing through modern traffic? "!! Do many such docs' actually own a car?

*Not sure what the capsules were he gave me but you put one under your tongue and ten later they could have sawn your leg off and you would not have given a ****!

Dave.

I have to say, my GP surgery has improved its "people skills" quite a bit in the last two months or so. They now have a 'ring you back' system that actually works! This kicks in after you have been holding for perhaps 5mins and thus stops the 50min+ hangs that were usual and we were paying for.

There was a piece in my local paper about 6 months ago where my surgery got a bit of a bllking for how they managed patients and that seems to have improved things.

There are still weird things? I ask a question one day by email and get a stern reply in red "Not what the service is for." So next time I ask a question using Systemonline. Again, apparently not the right route? Seems to me it would save everybody's time and temper to just answer the bloody question instead of telling me off?

For my latest problem an email WAS answered very politely. Then it seems so far forgotten.

I am certainly no IT boff' but surely a single, simple line of communication could be setup?

"Industry" used to have them. Called a "Telephone system" manned by a well trained operator.

Dave.

[Hugh Robjohns]

I imagine there are legitimate issues with confirming identity, accessing personal data, and providing medical advice.

[zenguitar]

And back on topic...

Whilst no Bad Gateway messages this morning so far, I am getting regular slow response on the forum today.

Looks like the bots are busy once more.

Andy

[Hugh Robjohns]

Yep, incredibly slow responses this morning.

[zenguitar]

And right on cue...

The first 502 Bad Gateway.

Andy

[ef37a]

I imagine there are legitimate issues with confirming identity, accessing personal data, and providing medical advice.

Then why would an email one day elicit helpful information and one another day "bog off!"? In any case, with Systemonline I have to log in.

As I said, IMHO we need a One Stop Shop for communication. Might be better elsewhere I suppose.
The other crazy thing is, even in my town people report different experiences with different surgeries. From, "nothing is too much trouble" to "I am thinking of wrapping my message around a house brick!"

Still waiting BTW.

Dave.

[ConcertinaChap]

As I said, IMHO we need a One Stop Shop for communication.

I believe HMG are promising yet another go at computerising the NHS including such goodies as a "One Stop Shop for communication". Going by past efforts that will take 10 years, cost £10 billion and eventually be scrapped because it doesn't work. The British Government and Civil Service of whatever political persuasion are singularly inept at running large computerisation projects.

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[Aled Hughes]

Yep, incredibly slow responses this morning.

Those birthday greetings not coming through fast enough?

I’m imagining you in a conical comical paper hat impatiently trying to refresh the page. Sorry.

[Drew Stephenson]

I believe HMG are promising yet another go at computerising the NHS including such goodies as a "One Stop Shop for communication". Going by past efforts that will take 10 years, cost £100 billion and eventually be scrapped because it doesn't work.

FTFY

Though it has to be said, this kind of thing should be much easier now that the use of APIs is so commonplace.

[Hugh Robjohns]

I’m imagining you in a conical comical paper hat impatiently trying to refresh the page. Sorry.

Time to up those meds, maybe?