"Appointment changes on a whim"

How is it that appointments arranged weeks and sometimes months previously are changed either forward or back without consultation.

My job is hanging by a thread due to my illness and only a small firm I work for.

I have to take holiday to ensure I can get the day off and then-out the blue-i am expected to mess my life and boss around with hardly any notice-its not on.

The last excuse was the consultant was now taking 'study leave'.

What the heck is that code for? 3 hospitals have done this to us now all in the months from May to August.

We don't all have the luxury of a cushy job where we can call the shots.

In the real world we have to toe the line despite what ever the law says or we lose our jobs.

Is this practice really because its holiday time.

Stick to the plan guys and be realistic.

My wife has to accompany me due to my condition-6 days of our annual holiday wasted-not even able to salvage a long weekend out of it because the consultants have mid-week clinics.

What a shambles and very disrespectful. and a shameful waste of everyones time from booking staff upwards.