Re: Prescribing
You wait to see your GP, then you wait weeks for physio. Potentially you're off work or unable to work at 100% and taking prescription medicine. Sometimes you even hurt yourself more having, for example, to limp for 8 weeks can damage your back.
I've found that where I'm living now (abroad), I see the physio within a few days meaning I'm back at 100% fit for work much quicker.
It seems to me that the NHS is caught in an ever decreasing circle. They're underfunded so they don't treat people on tile, so people get sicker and cost more to treat, so they're underfunded...... etc.
To give some other examples:
My uncle was told he didn't need a hip replacement, despite it being obvious he did. The GP didn't want to do it as it would cost too much. My father managed to get him seen privately and it was obvious from the scan that the hip needed replacing and the GP even said so but only after he'd had it done privately!
In another example my grandmother was forced to wait more than two years for a hip replacement and then denied it at the end as she wasn't active enough! Of course she wasn't active she'd been reduced to a cripple during the two years waiting and become unable to move. This then lead to heart problems and..... all I can say is "thanks" NHS!