Greetings Membas!
I use this post to share a very happy experience and I always like to give credit where credit is due. Some you may have seen some of my posts where I have shared our (Mum and me) experiences at the hands of various professional bodies helping care for Mum where I have not been all that impressed 
Here, I am truly grateful for having access to the NHS/GP/Rapid response at the end of a phone.
For a few days we had been troubled by Mum showing abnormal behaviour and plenty of discomfort and not getting anywhere with our attempts to troubleshoot and get to the bottom of what was ailing her. With the weekend imminent and normally not wanting to go to A&E at the weekend, I called the GP and asked for a home visit.
We had a chat and he said, it would be better if the Rapid Response (RR) came as they could carry out tests and speed things up. I agreed as I don’t particularly believe the GPs are much help when it comes to helping care for Mum.
Within two hours the RR AP had arrived (Rapid Response Advanced Practitioner) and started doing usual tests e.g. BP, Temperature, Oxygen saturation level, listening to heart, lungs etc. Asked various questions and everything seemed to be normal. All Obs (observations) came into normal (for a 60 year old) but actually super for Mum (90 something year old). With these ticked off, we were left with the answered question as to why Mum was behaving as she was (possibly hallucinating, looking at her hand, looking at the corner and pointing at nothing).
Only one thing left - bloods. So the AP took some bloods and did a great job, found a good vein and took blood with ease and kept Mum comfortable throughout.
She suggested the odd behaviour might be attributed to progression of dementia. We nodded politely - to our knowledge, Mum does not have dementia - she has vascular dementia which is not the same as dementia. Anyway the AP said she would get back to us by the evening to let us know if Mum will need to be taken to A&E. There was a suspicion her minerals (sodium/potassium) might be out of balance.
We were relieved that nothing of concern might be happening and my had now been quite relaxed for some time and much better than the previous day or two. We thanked the AP and got on with our routine. Later on that evening the AP rang and said bloods are fine and nothing to worry about. Everything is fine except slightly raised potassium but not worth worrying about . The AP had called Mum’s GP to discuss the results and they had agreed to wait a week and retest. To me this was music to my years. Mum is fine, nothing to worry about and no dreaded weekend trip to A&E.
We though what a lovely AP and what a lovely service provided by the GP/NHS and RR. In an afternoon they had put us at ease.
The beauty of this is Mum generally sorts herself out and that is pretty much what she has done yet again. But she does sometimes worry us as she did on this occasion.
Happy experience is how the actions of the GP et al helped put us at ease. When I had woken up I was worried big time as I just didn’t know what was going on with Mum. In the end it all worked out fine and I am truly grateful I was able to call upon the GP, NHS and RR and got the service that we got.
Today, Mum continued to improve and is heading to her true super self. Hopefully, next weeks repeat test will show her to be finely tuned again 
On this occasion I have to categorically state, the NHS done good by my Mum for which I am truly grateful.
Thank your for your interest in our story and hope it may help you in some way. Wishing you all the best.
Namaste|
