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"Lack of access to messaging and sending duplicate letters"

About: Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

(as a service user),

Firstly, I am unable to send a message to a member of my surgical or care team via MyCare. The facility has apparently not been enabled for two years or more, despite it still being on the MyCare site as an option. I can only send a message to general admin and they cannot pass it to any department. So following recent surgery when I had questions, I couldn't get any message through to have them answered. Apparently it only works if a medic messages the patient first??

Secondly, yesterday I received two letters, both exactly the same, dated 2 days apart, inviting me to a telephone appointment mid July which I had already phoned to cancel/postpone. This is a waste of resources - postage, and paper. One letter would suffice. There was absolutely no difference between the two letters. Cancelling this appointment was very difficult, moreover. The number given on my MyCare letter (which came through over a week before, which is how I knew about this appointment) took me to somewhere that I couldn't leave a message. So I rang the operator who put me through to the department that had dealt with my surgery. But it didn't say where the given phone number was supposed to go through to - it just gave it as a number to ring to cancel.

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Response from Jane Woods, Head of Records Management (Eastern Services), Health Records Department (Eastern Services), Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 3 weeks ago
Jane Woods
Head of Records Management (Eastern Services), Health Records Department (Eastern Services),
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Submitted on 01/07/2025 at 16:24
Published on Care Opinion at 16:24


Hi

Thank you for taking the time to provide some feedback via Care Opinion.

I'm sorry you've encountered some issues. The first is a known problem which we are working with the clinical teams to resolve.

However, the second issue raised is something that I will need to look into and escalate. To do so I would need your name, MRN or NHS number and date of birth. If you are happy to provide this to me please could you email me on jane.woods4@nhs.net making the subject matter as 'Care Opinion' and I will then escalate to the appropriate team, who can then respond back to the matters you've raised.

With best wishes

Jane

Head of Records Management/Patient Portal Helpdesk.

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