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About: Maybush Medical Centre

I attended this morning (27/05/25) at 9.25 for a 9.30 appointment. At 10.00 am I spoke with reception and said this isn’t working! I had heard a gentleman come In significantly after me and said he had a blood test at 9.50. By the time I spoke with reception he had been for his appointment and left the surgery!

The lady on reception apologised and said she would contact who I was meant to be seeing! 20 more minutes elapsed and I managed to speak to another lady who I suspect was ‘management’ in some capacity. Who said the lady who has just gone in at 10.20 was the 9.20 appointment ( the first of the day) and I was next. I had been made aware that you had had an IT crash. The Lady I saw was very nice and apologetic., and at this point I left feeling generally sorry for the staff than annoyed. I then visited the Phsrmacy to collect my prescription that I had ordered on line the previous week. It was here I learnt that this IT problem existed since last Friday which then made me annoyed that your failure to solve a problem since last Friday was causing such disruption on Tuesday following! This is just not good enough!

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Response from Maybush Medical Centre last month
Maybush Medical Centre
Submitted on 28/05/2025 at 22:15
Published on nhs.uk at 22:15


Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We’re truly sorry for the delay and frustration you encountered during your visit.

As advised on the day, we had a complete network outage on Friday morning and was without telephones or computers until Wednesday morning. Staff were sharing a limited number of laptops via a weak analogue connection (as opposed to super-fast fibre broadband) and our 5 cloud-based telephony lines were diverted to a single bypass phone. This was far from ideal but was a contingent solution whilst BT and Redcentric resolved the issue at the highest level of priority

We understand how disappointing and inconvenient this was but we were equally as frustrated as to how long it took for us to get reconnected; this was unfortunately out of our control.

We tried our best to keep patients informed of the disruption and communicated this at every step of the way via our social media page on Facebook.

Again we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding on what was an extremely difficult time for our staff

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