I cracked my rib last month and it took so long just to get a certificate to be signed off work. I rang the doctors and they said I had to fill out some online consultation thing as they don’t book appointments for people over the phone.
Filled out the consultation thing and it said they’d get back to me in 4 days which I was kinda worried about since I’m only allowed a maximum of one week off work unless you provide a certificate.
It got to the 4th day and they hadn’t contacted me so I phoned them and they were so casual like “oh someone was supposed to ring you yesterday but they didn’t, your appointments arranged for Monday” and just put the phone down whilst I’m sat there on the other end like
since that would’ve been 8 days.
It got to the Monday and they still didn’t ring me. By this point I was pretty fuming and was about to phone them when my GP messaged me and said my certificate is ready for me to collect tomorrow (why couldn’t I just collect it today would make sense). I got it in the end but I wouldn’t think it would take soo long for a certificate.