Reviews
The staff at the practice have all been amazing over the last year helping me understand my symptoms , as sometimes these didn’t make sense to anyone, but after endless tests and investigations the gp mananged to finally put a diagnosis.
I have been trying to get an appointment with a doctor on the telephone not even face to face on patches for over a week now, there’s never the option to request it because it doesn’t allow it, I’ve tried early morning and every other time. It’s impossible. I don’t understand why they don’t just allow patients calling in to book appointments, I mean that’s why the receptionists and staff are there for. Why does this surgery make it so difficult for patients to book a telephone appointment with a doctor! Not happy at all with the service here!
The new patchs is a pain if you log on after 8:30am you can never fill out until the next day.
It can take forever to get through and there are no appointments left thus having to try again another day
I spent 1hour and 25minutes waiting on the phone to answer a query about results coming back for my child, there were 14 people in the queue, the last 20 minutes I was first in the queue which seems extreme. I was then advised that they had returned 2 weeks ago and that I had to book an e-consult for this on their website - the receptionist wouldn't do it over the phone for me as they were all taken.
When I said that I was very disappointed in the lack of help she didn't apologise for any inconvenience I may have. When I even mentioned that I had tried the website and that on the phone view it wasn't clear what to do. Also that the doctors had never said that I would have to personally chase up the results myself and guess when they had been received. I felt all the tasks were placed back into my hands and if I didn't chase then I wouldn't get the help that I had asked for.
I have now used the website which took another 5-10 minutes to be told that there would be a phone call sometime in the next 3 days. This would be extremely awkward on a normal work week as I am not allowed to have my phone on me during work times, luckily I'm on holidays this week.
The inefficiencies seem to be taken as normal and that I should just accept which is not acceptable for many people who work and have limited time to access doctors.
Resources
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