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urbanspaceman said:
I've been with Brixton Hill Group Practice for more than 20 years, thankfully only needing to visit a handful of times. I've found the receptionists to live to down to the stereotype of GPs admin staff, and had no continuity of Doctor. Anyway, this new system seems designed to make it more difficult to get treatment and is enough to encourage me to switch. So I've been looking for a new GP ...
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Hetherington Group Practice has used the same system for a while. I've quite got used to it and never had any problem getting a follow-up face to face appointment the same day, when it's been appropriate. You can book the telephone appointment on line as well.
 
thanks for that. Lets hope the issues smudge has had are just teething ones. There is more info on the website including details of how to book online, which wasn't in the text. Plus how they are continuing to offer their commuter service on Tuesdays
Fingers crossed
 
Just come in through Brixton Tube station, it’s crawling with coppers. Platform level, ticket level, street level. Apparently it’s “Routine... nothing to be cincerned about...” I didn’t see any dogs, but they did stop two young white men in the ticket hall as I passed. Also saw cops roaming about on Electric Avenue.
 
sparkybird said:
As from the 23rd April 2018, Brixton Hill Group Practice will be changing the appointment system. Patients will need to book a telephone consultation to speak with a GP, who will then book a face to face appointment for you if needed. Telephone appointments will be offered on the day of request only. You should not call on a day you are unable to attend the surgery. Please speak to a receptionist, the reception manager or email: [email protected] if you have any questions. Thank you

Here's the text re the doctor appointment. Reading it, it sounds like you call and then get an appointment that same day??
What if you can't attend that day? Or what if you take the day off work and phone and then they can't see you??

I'll email to check but not holding out hope of getting a sensible reply...
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My partner has has had this problem with practice she registered with.

Im with Stockwell group practice. Its getting very difficult to get appointment.

I was there on Monday trying to get one. Couldn't so asked for one at different practice. In Lambeth you can do this. The practices are linked. I went to the Vassal road NHS Hub.

GPs in Lambeth computer systems are linked . When I went to Vassal road NHS hub today the GP had all my info.

So if you cant get appointment ask to be referred to another practise.
 
Don't mess with the Lambeth Pensioners Action Group!

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In photos: Lambeth Pensioners Action Group take the fight to the town hall
 
When I walked from the tube to the Barrier Block on Thursday night (around 10pm) I reckon I must have seen at last 12 laaads pissing in the streets in that short walk. The smell of piss was everywhere, particularly on Electric Avenue. Still, it's OK because Brixton Bid have taken care of the problem by printing up some posters. :facepalm:
 
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When I walked from the tube to the Barrier Block on Thursday night (around 10pm) I reckon I must have seen at last 12 laaads pissing in the streets in that short walk. The smell of piss was everywhere, particularly on Electric Avenue. Still, it's OK because Brixton Bid have taken care of the problem by printing up some posters. :facepalm:
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The Streets concert crowd - both mail and female were pissing in every corner and doorway both before and after the concert - The Council with a small contribution from Brixton BID do regularly hose down many of the worst areas - they don't actually time it to fit with the Academy Concerts though...
 
The Council have actually fixed a street sign on Ferndale Road directing people towards the plastic four person public male urinal they site on Stockwell Avenue every weekend.

Pissing on Brixton - fully suported by the cooperative Lambeth Council with promotions by the Night Time Economy Initiative!!!!
 
editor said:
When I walked from the tube to the Barrier Block on Thursday night (around 10pm) I reckon I must have seen at last 12 laaads pissing in the streets in that short walk. The smell of piss was everywhere, particularly on Electric Avenue. Still, it's OK because Brixton Bid have taken care of the problem by printing up some posters. :facepalm:
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I saw two people slip on vomit outside the tube last Saturday night. Thanks for everything Lambeth!
 
Maybe a dose of the artisan pepper spray used by a to date, unidentified, police officer on those watching the arrest of African charity workers a short distance away 18 months ago might also assist those in Brixton suffering from apparently uncontrollable prostate enlargement issues?

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... Unless, of course, you all know of some reason for the diference in treatment
 
ricbake said:
The Streets concert crowd - both mail and female were pissing in every corner and doorway both before and after the concert - The Council with a small contribution from Brixton BID do regularly hose down many of the worst areas - they don't actually time it to fit with the Academy Concerts though...
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Don't worry there's going to be biblical rain from this evening onwards.

Felt sorry for the Disco Festival setup in a distinctly grey & chilly Windrush sq yesterday, what a week does to the weather eh?
 
Detectives investigating the murder of Mrs Samantha Clarke (pictured above) on Sunday 15 April 2018 at Sudbourne Road in Brixton have now charged 21-year old Jordan Clarke, 21 of Sudbourne Road, Brixton, with murder.

He will appear in custody at the Old Bailey on Thursday 19 April 2018.
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Jordan Clarke is due to stand trial for the murder of local resident, Mrs Samantha Clarke, at the Old Bailey on 8 October 2018.
 
GarveyLives said:
Regarding 'Windrush' matters: Mother of Windrush citizen blames passport battle for son's death as Home Office deals with 113 cases







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In one of the earliest cases to be widely reported in the 'Windrush General' scandal', local resident 63-year old Sylvester Marshall, who The Guardian had been calling 'Albert Thompson' at his request as he pursued his immigration application with the Home Office and is the Windrush victim who was denied NHS cancer care, has been given permanent right to remain in the UK after a battle with the Home Office that has absorbed nine years of his life. He has lived in the UK for 44 years.

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Windrush cancer patient has UK residency status confirmed (click for more)
 
As Windrush has come up a couple of my posts from politics thread on Windrush based on chats I had in Brixton:

The hostile environment policy put in place by May has caused this. I was chatting to someone in Brixton today about this. A lot of the people who came here from Carribbean even in seventies didn't really "regularise" there position here. It was just that no one in authority really questioned there immigration status then. A lot of them never applied for British citizenship. They came here got a job and kept there heads down.

I've known plenty of visa overstayers/ "illegal" immigrants in London. It's getting harder with the introduction of "hostile environment". Not totally impossible yet but getting there.

What this children of Windrush issue does do is highlight the arbitrary nature of immigration controls. And the nasty effects of them.

There was a Columbian security guard I knew. He suddenly wasn't at the office. He was married here and lived here. Went back to Columbia for a visit. On way back he was stopped from boarding plane back. Took him three months of arguing to get back here to UK. He told me about it when he came back to his old job.

These kinds of things go on all the time. It's just that it does not effect most of us. A lot of immigration policy is about hounding people. It's not about "unintended" consequences or over zealous officials. This is how it's meant to work.

Unfortunately for this government the Windrush issue broke through to mainstream press. So now May and those who are anti migrants are now falling over themselves to say they of course support Windrush children staying here. That doesn't mean they are going to change immigration policy. Get rid of "hostile environment" for any other groups like South Americans.

and this:

I was in Brixton today chatting to shopkeeper I know. He was born and grew up in Brixton. His parents came from Carribbean.

He told me one of his relatives who came here in 1968 had immigration troubles couple of years ago. He came here in 68 and has worked in UK since then. Going back to Carribbean every few years to see relatives. He kept his Carribbean passport. Never tried to get UK one. For years this never was a problem. Then couple of years back ( when hostile environment came in) he went to Carribbean. Came back to UK and for first time interrogated by immigration officials at airport. After several hours they let him in. He was starting a new job. The business he was going to work for asked for his papers to prove he could work here. The fact that he had worked here for years didn't count. They said sorry but they couldn't take him on until he got them.

He had to get a lot of legal advice and pay for a identification card. This cost him three grand. Whilst he was sorting this out he couldn't work. He really struggled.

He is back at work now.

My friend said the Tory party is institutionally racist. Whatever May may say now.

Also racist from his perspective are those who are for immigration controls but claim they are not racist.
 
To add to the above - it should be realised that Jamaicans did not need visas to travel to UK until 2003.
They would automatically be given 6 months stay (as a visitor) on arrival at Gatwick/Heathrow.
I guess there must've been a proportion of visitors who simply got a job and stayed on.

I knew of one who did, because he gave my address on disembarkation (without my knowledge). He was a friend of a Jamaican (British) lodger living in my house at the time. The downside was when I got raided by immigration a couple of years later, when the authorities were looking for this guy.

I was sufficiently pissed off having my house invaded early on a Sunday morning by police and immigration officials that I complained to the Police/Consutative Group, who got an official from the Immigration service down to one of their meeting to answer questions.

Needless to say there were several other people who'd had similar experiences. But this was back in 1989 I think. Thatcher era stuff.
 
SheilaNaGig said:
Just come in through Brixton Tube station, it’s crawling with coppers. Platform level, ticket level, street level. Apparently it’s “Routine... nothing to be cincerned about...” I didn’t see any dogs, but they did stop two young white men in the ticket hall as I passed. Also saw cops roaming about on Electric Avenue.
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Really annoys me when the police lurk at tube stations catching out otherwise peaceful people going about their day. At least they seem to have cut their sniffer dog budget in recent times as I've not seen any at tube stations in years (just as well!)
 
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Really annoys me when the police lurk at tube stations catching out otherwise peaceful people going about their day. At least they seem to have cut their sniffer dog budget in recent times as I've not seen any at tube stations in years (just as well!)
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Isn't this just one more advantage of sold-out Academy concerts (alongside being locked out of the Beehive and the torrents of piss previously complained of up thread).
 
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