Long queues outside GP surgery as patients struggle to book online appointments

Dozens of patients were forced to queue for hours outside a south London GP surgery on Wednesday morning after struggling to get an appointment online.

A picture published on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed a long queue of patients waiting outside Hilly Fields Medical Centre in Ladywell at 8am.

Anna-Maria Cahalane, a patient at the surgery who uploaded the photograph, told the Standard that she had called the surgery before 8am to secure an appointment but was never added to a phone queue.
She later joined a line of “about 40” people outside the practice on Adelaide Avenue in the hope of getting an appointment.

One Health Group PLC (AQSE:OHGR) are a team of Consultant Surgeons and Healthcare managers working with the NHS to provide faster, local and expert care in Orthopaedics, Spinal, General Surgery and Gynaecology.

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