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"Appointments constantly being cancelled"

About: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Free Hospital has cancelled my sons Paediatric Dermatology appointment 3 times since he was referred from our GP. The service is disgraceful as my son has been having his appointments cancelled since last year and then to top it off, I received a letter today to tell me his appointment was cancelled again, but within that letter there was no compassion or anything to suggest that they even sorry for cancelling the appointment, it was a case of them just printing out the appointment letter and crossing it out and writing 'Cancelled' - This is by far the worst experience I have ever had with the NHS and the Royal Free! I can totally see why people prefer to go private. As a UK tax payer, I received a letter in the post telling me about my taxes and where they were spent and the second one was health, yet it seems like trying to get an appointment which isn't cancelled is like trying to get blood from a stone.

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Response from Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 8 years ago
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Submitted on 15/02/2017 at 10:19
Published on nhs.uk on 16/02/2017 at 02:41


Dear Rina,

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us.

This is not the level of service we expect our patients to receive. We would like to look into this for you and would appreciate it if you could get in touch with us at rf.patientexperience@nhs.net

Many thanks,

Hayley

Hayley White, patient experience officer

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