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"Very disappointed"

About: Locala Community Partnerships CIC / Kirklees Sexual Health

(as the patient),

Tried to ring to book an appointment for a sexual health screening. I suffer from social anxiety and do not enjoy drop in so would rather book an appointment. It was a Thursday and the website said phone lines open until 6pm. It was 3. 30pm and I was ringing until 5pm, hanging up after 5 mins and redialling, getting frustrated, perhaps they are just busy. I then sent an email through the contact form. It took 26 days for them to reply to my email.

I then found a number for the outreach team who informed me that the staff where on a training day and that is why no-one was available to answer. I thought that was slightly absurd but ok. I then rang up the next day to book an appointment to be informed no appointments for 6 weeks. I was upset and asked to put in a complaint. I was informed that the customer liason manager would contact me.

I waited a couple of days and got no contact. I decided I would ring up the main number again and this time I was offered an appointment at a different place. I got myself booked in. Unfortunately on the day of the appointment I had a very bad time with my panic disorder and anxiety. I believe the stress of complaining and then the thought of staff knowing me as the one who complained perhaps made me anxious.

I was waiting about 5 days before I got a voicemail apologising and offering me an appointment...

And then today I got a reply to my first email 26 days ago.

Very disappointed by Locala and I will never use them again

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Responses

Response from Sarah True, Customer Engagement Manager, Locala Community Partnerships 7 years ago
Sarah True
Customer Engagement Manager,
Locala Community Partnerships
Submitted on 02/11/2016 at 14:40
Published on Care Opinion at 14:41


We are sorry you were not happy with the service you received from Locala. We did offer you an appointment and were disappointed you failed to attend. There would have been no issues attending the appointment, our team do not treat anyone differently if they have had cause to complain. We called you on a number of occasions to offer you appointment but you didn’t respond. We then sent you a letter asking you to contact our team by phone to make an appointment. We don’t have an e-mail address for you otherwise we would have contacted you via e-mail.

We are sorry were weren’t able to offer you an appointment immediately and we have apologised to you about that. We have tried to offer you appointments but you have failed to respond or attend.

Once again we urge you to contact the service in order to make an appointment or contact our Customer Liaison team via email on enquiry@locala.org.uk

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