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About: Gartnavel General Hospital / ENT

(as the patient),

I am a wheelchair user and I attended an appointment at clinic 3 Gartnavel Hospital but when I got to the reception the wheelchair window had the blinds down and various laminated posters covering the window. The other window was too high for me to see over or speak to staff through.

I asked a staff member to speak to me through the wheelchair height window and she attempted to raise the blinds then gave up and told me the window was "broken". I took a photograph of this "broken window" and ironically too a care opinion card from the ledge below.

Points of communication and access for disabled people and wheelchair users should always be clear and useable - no matter how often they are being used. This is covered by the equality act 2010.

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Response from Nicole McInally, Patient Experience and Public Involvement Project Manager, PEPI, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde last week
Nicole McInally
Patient Experience and Public Involvement Project Manager, PEPI,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Submitted on 19/01/2026 at 09:30
Published on Care Opinion at 09:30


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Dear Fiorh37

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Please accept my apologies that you were unable to use the wheelchair-height reception window at Clinic 3 and that the window was broken. This isn’t the welcome or accessibility our patients should expect.

You are absolutely right that the points of communication and access must be clear and usable for people with disabilities.

I will share your feedback with the department and our Estates Team to get this resolved.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Kind Regards

Nicole

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