Rang 111 on the Saturday morning as I had a temperature after finishing a cause of antibiotics for a urine infection they put me through to west call and I spoke with a doctor who advised that I see a doctor at the royal Berkshire hospital but that was going to be at 6:30 that evening. So I turned up on time as requested but had to wait half an hour before I was called to go in. Things just seemed to go down hill rapidly from there the doctor was ok did what he had to then he said that he wanted to run some tests on the urine sample I had provided. I was just left in there for what seemed like an age then a nursing assistant come in saying she needed to do a blood test she then used one of those prickers for blood sugar test then started to squeeze the blood out without much success but she persisted till she was satisfied she had enough in the small syringe she had and of she went only to come back a shot while later saying that she had been using the little syringe incorrectly so she was going to have another go. We went through the whole process again with similar results so she decided to take blood from my arm imagine my dismay when she came back with the necessary equipment only to look at it obviously with no idea how to use it fortunately she broke the needle before trying put it in my arm so she went to get the doctor who gave me a prescription for more antibiotics. When I then presented it in my local pharmacy I was told that it could not be dispensed as the script was incorrectly filled out so I then had to get in touch with west call to get a new script which they sent directly to the pharmacy but when I picked it up the dosage was different from the original and the amount of tablets is incorrect so I don’t have enough to complete the course so will now have get back in touch later when there back at the royal Berkshire hospital.
"Don’t know what they are doing "
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