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About: Birley Health Centre

Why is it that staff think they have medical degrees and can advise patients without you ever seeing a Dr, not that you can ever get to see a Dr when you want, cant even make a routine medication review appointment. Expected to phone at 8.30am and "take you chances" of getting an appointment when you want one. Some of us actually work full time and cant be trying to contact the surgery over 40 times before you actually get your call answered, when you do get through you're told there is nothing left so try again. What a joke. Try ordering medication and told to buy it over the counter tried to explain the strength of medication required is prescription only, reception staff tell you to take 3 tablets of a lower strength, once again didn't know the reception staff are medically trained. Some off the staff need to have better attitudes towards patients and realise that patients are sometimes really unwell even though they look fine, maybe then they will be less patronising.

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Response from Birley Health Centre 7 years ago
Birley Health Centre
Submitted on 26/03/2018 at 11:53
Published on nhs.uk at 12:07


Good Morning

Thank you for your feedback.

When making appointments by telephone we ask that receptionists enquire why patients would like to be seen and if they wouldn't mind, giving a little information, if it is an ongoing problem for example. This is so that the patient can be booked in with the correct clinician. Sometimes a Nurse Practitioner may be more appropriate and there is usually less time to wait for an appointment than a doctor. There are also 'Sheffield Hubs' available offering evening and weekend appointments with Doctors, Nurses and Health care Assistants. Sometimes patients find this service really useful as it can fit in with work requirements for many. Of course if a patient would rather not give any information that is also ok. We are simply trying to navigate the patient to the most appropriate clinician, for the benefit of the patient.

In regards to the prescribing issue you have mentioned, I can only think this may be related to the Sheffield city wide prescribing programme.

Full details are available at www.sheffieldccg.nhs.uk

If you have any outstanding issues please do not hesitate to contact me at the surgery.

Regards

K Haigh

Practice Manager

Birley Health Centre

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