This is your NHS medical card.

"It is proof you are entitled to NHS treatment"

No facts in this statement at all. You are not ENTITLED to anything from the NHS. If you were you would be able to sue for none provision of treatment, you cannot. You only get what the NHS decides to let you have, there are absolutely NO entitlements.

"If you need to see a doctor take this card with you so that your doctor knows that you are entitled to NHS treatment"

And then if you look foreign they will also demand your passport and visa to prove you have leave to be in the country, like the fucking SS guards

"You may have to pay if you do not"

Oh you will need to pay, a lot, in tax for a GP service you cannot access, and for the private GP you end up seeing instead

"If so, get a receipt from your doctor, this shows you how to recover the fee"

Which doctor ever issued these receipts? You sure as fuck cannot recover your Medi Centre fee when all the NHS doctors receptionists have refused to let you see a doctor.

"Emergencies, try to get to your own doctor first"

So what is this mythical emergency that they allow immediate access to the GP surgery that day?, without waiting for 3 or 4 days? There ARE NO CIRCUMSTANCES in which the NHS GP down the road allows patients to attend on the same day - I know the receptionist told me when I was standing in front of her in agony this morning

"or a doctor covering for them"

Most docs routinely have locums standing in. I have not seen the doctor named on any of my many medical cards since the age of about 6.

"If they are not available, you can get treatment from any NHS family doctor"

Yep if you are i) more than 50 miles away from the GP you are registered with and ii) you are prepared to wait an absolute minimum of 3 days to get seen

"Local primary care centre"

What's one of these? I am genuinely interested?

"Minor injuries unit"
What one of these "nurse led" places? I already know there is a 99 % chance I need an anti-biotic, why the fuck would I queue for hours to have someone who has not clue on choice of anti-biotic tell me I need to see a doctor, I knew that already!

"or A & E"

ha ha ha ho ho ho, how we laughed, so you're in agony with a minor infection (say) why the fuck should you be queuing in A & E when they have road accidents to deal with etc? You will never get seen. And if you do you will be sitting next to a big police prisoner guarded by a little chocolate teapot of a policewoman, boy will you have fun when he inevitably starts acting up

"Failing that dial 999"

What for a fucking painful infection?

"If you cannot find a doctor to accept you please let us know. We will find a doctor for you"

Err no you wont, you will tell me to take a day off work and queue in person a one clinic, and if they don't accept me after a day of waiting to take another day off work to queue at another clinic, and so on, and yep you will force me to use the crap doctor in town who none of the locals who have been here years will put up with, thereby giving the worst doctors in the country guaranteed income from press ganged patients

What a waste of taxpayers money