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"Terrible service"

About: Amwell Group Practice

I have been trying to book my newborn baby’s 6 weeks appointment for three weeks now. The people on the other side of the line have been telling me to call a week before the sixth week to be able to book which for me sounded odd. Today is a week before so I called to book. Not only they gave me a seventh week appointment option but when I said that I have been calling for three weeks to be able to book the sixth week appointment the lady on the other side of the line told me that she didn’t have anything to do with it as it wasn’t with her that I spoke before. We are leaving the country so we won’t be able to take our baby to a postnatal appointment as we should have. Fortunately in our country of destination I have already booked an appointment with a good pedestrian so she will be checked properly. Thanks NHS for this awful experience.

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Response from Amwell Group Practice 11 months ago
Amwell Group Practice
Submitted on 13/05/2023 at 11:57
Published on nhs.uk on 14/05/2023 at 20:12


Dear Dora,

Thank you so much for taking the time to give us this feedback.

I am so sorry that you haven't had a good experience and I am especially sad that you were put in the position of having to keep trying to organise this appointment when you had a precious new baby to focus on.

We are very focused on ensuring that we see all of our new baby's for the new baby check between 6 and 8 weeks, and have a system set up to proactively invite parents and their babies along for this once we have the maternity discharge summary from the hospital. This has clearly failed in your case. I will take this back to the reception and administration teams in order to review our processes to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

Yours,

Dr Rose MacDonald

GP Partner.

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