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"Always a great service"

About: Beacon Medical Group

Great service from the doctors and nurses. Most of the time it's a struggle to get past the receptionist, recently I had a lovely receptionist who was very helpful and it was lovely to not be grilled on "why haven't you done the online form" with a stroppy tone.

It also takes forever to get through now it's Beacon. It took me 2 minutes just to get to the dial options which is ridiculous.

Then you're in a que for 20-40 mins and you're 2nd in the que.

Since Beacon has taken over I'm not happy.

Why fix something that worked amazingly before.

Was always lovely to have the same receptionists answer the phone and they were always lovely. Never took any time for them to answer either.

You could speak to a doctor quicker too.

The online form can take way too much of your time with unnecessary questions then it says call 111 when you only want to speak to a doctor so you have to adjust your answers.

There are way too many hurdles to talk to a doctor now, it's a shame as it puts people off and they would rather suffer instead.

I could go on and on... doctors and nurses are great though and some receptionists.

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Response from Beacon Medical Group 2 years ago
Beacon Medical Group
Submitted on 13/05/2021 at 11:38
Published on nhs.uk at 16:55


Thank you for taking the time to provide Beacon Medical Group with your feedback. We appreciate you doing this.

We encourage the use of submitting an eConsult so that our clinicians can make sure every patient gets the right care, saving appointments for those that need them. If you can use eConsult it means you free up the phone line for those who are not able to use the internet.

We appreciate this not all of our community are able to use this and will require to contact us by telephone. Nationally GP practices have seen an increase in the amount of telephone calls. For Beacon Medical Group we have received over 33,000 calls for the period from 1 March to 30 April and our teams have been working hard to deal with this demand.

eConsult are aware of the threshold systems for pain and are looking to update these in the near future to make these more user friendly.

Thank you

Beacon Medical Group

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