Absolutely. The waste especially up here of having staff travel hundred of miles across country just to talk to patients is amazing, and those journey can easily involve overnight states too. If you have a seven hour round trip journey and the weather is vile too it all gets a bit ridiculous.
The NHS is so unbelievably inefficient and wasteful. a half the time they don't even use email. I can hardly believe it but I get the impression that they are still actually using snail-mail. I can email one or two consultants, but I am not sure if I can even email the local doctors. One kindly GP now comes to the house from time to time but I have decided that I am not going to the doctors’ surgery any more. It is just too much pain and sickness and it is not worth it. Could all be done on the phone or by email anyway. And the whole business of people having to take time off work so they can go to the doctors is crazy, that should just be done with a phone call.
When I used to see one of my consultants half of the time was wasted every session just spent filling her in with the current load of drugs that I am in now. Why on earth did she not just know ? Why could she not just look me up? And in any case if due to some bizarre failing she could not look me up I could just have emailed her in advance to get it all out of the way.