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I have what i suspect to be a tibial stress fracture. I would like to get it checked out by a doctor, but I am registered with Dulwich Medical Centre (4 week wait). I'm thinking of just paying to see a private doctor, but not having done this before I have no idea how you go about finding one. Has anyone got any recommendations? Thanks.
There is a 24 hour clinic between Camberwell Green and Peckham where anyone can walk in and see a doctor. Just go to the reception. Kings College sent me there earlier this year when I had an allergic reaction to getting bitten and I was seen in about 20 minutes.

Slightly off topic but have any of the patients of DMC checked the the soon-to-be-replaced PCT about the practices at DMC? Do they have a patients forum? They should do but I bet they are not at all representative.


On topic - have also heard good things about Lister Walk In in peckham despite waiting times.

DMC used to be brilliant, but now it's pretty bad. Except that somehow my wife is always able to wheedle a same day appointment by speed dialling at eight in the morning. I think the axing of the 48 hour target in the health and social care bill might have something to do with it?
Call DMC first thing in the morning when they open for a same day appointment. When you inevitably don't get one call the Southwark Primary Care Trust and complain (http://www.nhs.uk/Services/Trusts/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=5LE). You'll often get a call back with a magically appeared appointment and if not the more complaints about unreasonable waiting times for an appointment the better.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I think you can get same day appointments at DMC

> by turning up in person 10 mins before opening

> time, and queueing up.


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Yes you can.


I can't think of any times when I haven't got one that way.


In theory you can also phone, but in practice they don't seem to have enough lines, so by the time you get through sometimes all that day's "same day" appointments have gone.


I'm staying at DMC because I'm happy with the medical care I get.


ondined, I don't think a physio would deal with a suspected fracture, though I may be wrong.

I think you all need to call the PCT. They do care. I rang them over an issue at a dentists surgery and they investigated and rang the dental surgery to put them right on a few issues without using my name, and rang me separately to tell me they had done so.

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