Surgery opens at 8am but it is currently 8.30am ...

Surgery opens at 8am but it is currently 8.30am and the phone line is, as it has been all morning, busy . This happens every time and you cant even join a queue to wait and know how long you will be waiting. As with every other time I will also have to book a sit and wait time. This involves sitting around for usually 30-45 minutes after you re given time for a 5 minute appointment. The receptionists (I do not think there are ever more than two), are generally very polite but clearly inundated with calls. You have to go through all of this because booking a set GP appointment leads to at least a month of waiting..The shining light is that all of the GP s I have seen thus far have been extremely friendly.