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"Abrupt staff lacking in empathy"

About: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust / Adult mental health

(as a service user),

I was incorrectly sign posted to the wrong CMHT branch in a neighbouring borough over at The Mount, Accrington. 

In my attempts to navigate my way around this error I spoke with a member of the team and became quite distressed, stating that I was happy to attend The Mount rather than my nearest clinic if it was going to be more straight forward for me and I stated that I had friends in a similar situation with this postcode error. 

The member of staff I spoke to was very abrupt, accused me of speaking over them several times without the staff member actually letting me finish what I had to say first and then they went on to put the telephone down on me. 

I was left very angry and disappointed and I would suggest that this member of staff would perhaps benefit from some further training as I feel it was very inappropriate to hang up on me; particularly when I wasn't actually getting a chance to finish expressing my points before being acccused of "talking over" the staff member, whom I presume is employed to listen to the service user.  

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Response from Sarah Harrison, Head of Complaints and PALS, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust 3 years ago
We are preparing to make a change
Sarah Harrison
Head of Complaints and PALS,
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Submitted on 12/10/2020 at 08:26
Published on Care Opinion at 17:05


I am sorry to read of your experience with one of our teams. If you would like to discuss this further with one of the PALS team or complaints Team, please contact us on pals@lscft.nhs.uk or complaints@lscft.nhs.uk. Or you can call 0800234 6088.

Many thanks

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