Lovely article.1 This is what used to happen with those fortunately rare major psychiatric emergencies often in the context of thinking about the need to section a patient under the Mental Health Act. A phone call to the secretary, a mutually agreed time, and off we went.
Now a phone call to the local referral unit and a rejection or promises to be phoned back, then the wrong team, then more phone calls, more rejections, and 2 hours have gone past, and the rest of the day’s workload cannot be postponed to find a gap for a joint meeting. Shame.
- © British Journal of General Practice 2020
