luckily we very rarely need to see our docter, youngest and i need regular repeat prescriptions for that i need to go to the surgery 24hrs in advance then pick them up next day, on saturday i spoke to the pharmacist at boots about something my youngest had on her lower lip, on the advice of that i rang doctors first thing monday morning, 35 phonecalls before i got a human voice, i know if i had just asked to see dr i would have been given an appointment a fortnight away, but because i said what the pharmacist thought it was i got an appointment that morning.