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Quote: Originally posted by JoannaLesley on 30/1/2021

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OH has been deaf in one ear for a couple of weeks. He rang our surgery, assuming that it is ear wax which needs to be cleared. Reception said that this is no longer carried out at the practice and referred him to a company who are charging £60 to come to your home and do this. As it's not always easy to find extra money, he left it for a while, but has now capitulated. Bonus is that they will do a second person at the same address for half price! We hope that if it isn't ear wax they will tell him.

Our practice has been doing something similar for podiatry for some time now.

I appreciate that surgeries currently have other things to think about and act on, but is this the way things are going?

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Quote: Originally posted by mzzy on 05/2/2021

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The reason for not doing ear syringing, at the moment, is because of the Covid risk, with squirting water in your ear.
The opticians use a suction method (no water)
Nothing to do with cost.
I work in a GP’s 🙂

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Quote: Originally posted by Ina on 05/2/2021

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Quote: Originally posted by mzzy on 05/2/2021

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The reason for not doing ear syringing, at the moment, is because of the Covid risk, with squirting water in your ear.
The opticians use a suction method (no water)
Nothing to do with cost.
I work in a GP’s 🙂

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The opticians use a suction method (no water)

What on earth do opticians suction, I shudder to think ☹️ I worked in a GP practice for many years but that's a new one 🤔

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Quote: Originally posted by martin734 on 01/2/2021

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...... I actually prefer online consultations, at least then I don't have to sit in a room full of sick people all describing in excruciating detail what it is that is wrong with them while waiting for my appointment that was supposed to have been an hour previously.

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