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"No call after 2 weeks"

About: North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

(as the patient),

Warrington recovery team contacted 2 weeks ago by patient and a professional.    When patient called assured be contacted as soon as practitioner available.    The professional told team needed speak someone that particular day.   No call to either patient or professional.   Patient left with no support all over 4 day bank holiday and proceeding weeks.

As the patient when I called regarding the call I got a tone of voice that wasn't very welcoming and was told that they were aware I need calling. This made my anxiety worse and has discouraged me from calling again, especially when phone calls are massive issue to me accessing support.

Still to this date no sign of call being returned by the team to either the patient or professional.    If the team bothered to call now 2 weeks later it's too little too late.    Instances like this one day may have dire consequences. Access to support isn't timely, how long are you expected to wait for phone call, what is an acceptable timescale. Do staff not have any duty of care. It's ok placing responsibility on patient. But when patient can't speak to practitioner in timely manner how is that helpful. I would rather suffer alone than be continually let down and treated not as a priority.

The professional who contacted the team has told me it's common knowledge within my Gp practice for calls not to be returned.  If professionals are having issues gaining support for patients surely that speaks volumes.   I asked the healthcare professional not to contact the team as only ever get let down.   I'm now actually glad they did as they have seen for themselves the issues and why I am so against input from a team that is struggling to meet patients needs.

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Response from Bev Donlan, Complaints, PALS and Compliments Co-ordinator, NWBH 6 years ago
Bev Donlan
Complaints, PALS and Compliments Co-ordinator,
NWBH
Submitted on 04/05/2017 at 16:45
Published on Care Opinion at 16:50


Dear Sir/madam

Thank you for the taking the time to post your comments.

My name is Bev Donlan and I am the Complaints Coordinator for the Trust.

I was very sorry to hear of your experiences and I would like to offer my apologies.

I would like to assure you that this is not the level of service we expect as a Trust.

Your comments will be passed onto the team and we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you so that we can help to resolve your concerns.

You can contact myself or another member of the team, my details are:

Number: 01925 664450

E-mail: complaints@NWBH.nhs.uk

My hours of work this week: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm

Once again I would like to thank you for taking the time to tell us about your experience. We sincerely value your feedback as this will help us to improve our services for other people in the future.

Kind regards

Bev

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