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"My sons exceptional NHS care"

About: Newquay Hospital / Minor Injury Unit Newquay Hospital / Radiology Royal Cornwall Hospital (Treliske) / Clinical Imaging Royal Cornwall Hospital (Treliske) / MRI

(as a parent/guardian),

I'd really like to share our incredibly positive experience with our teenage son's recent NHS care.

My son had a nasty accident in a school PE lesson when he accidentally collided with another pupil. My son continued to his next school lesson, but had to phone home for my partner to collect him as his knee had become so painful. He came home with us for the rest of the day with a nastily swollen knee and in a lot of paint to walk. We treated it with ice and ibuprofen / paracetamol and in the morning as the swelling was still there, we phoned 111 to ask if we could arrange to take him to our local community hospital for an xray. It did take a few minutes to get through on 111 but when we did, the call handler was fantastic - very knowledgeable, great at listening and clearly explained and referred us to Newquay hospital for a booked appointment within the hour for an x-ray. In newquay hospital the treatment was superb - they treated my son and his dad with enormous respect and care and were very thorough, they took the x-ray and made an appointment at Treliske hospital MRI unit for the knee to be precautionary scanned within 1 hour just to check there was nothing being missed by the x-ray. We then took him for his MRI scan at Treliske when again the team were really knowledgeable and thorough scanning him with great care and explaining all the procedure and what they were looking for to both him and his dad. Later that afternoon we had a phone call to our home from Newquay hospital saying that they had looked at the x-ray and would recommend us taking him for an MRI scan, when we explained that he had had a scan, the lady was able to instantly pull up his MRI scan on her screen, the lady then said that she could see the MRI scan and that someone had already logged their comments on scan (which the lady could see), the comments said that the MRI was all clear, the lady also said that in her opinion the scan was all clear and then made a 1 week follow up appointment for him to attend the fracture clinic at Treliske to just check on progress. I am so sorry that I don't have names of the incredible staff and am not knowledgeable enough to even know the roles or names of their departments but I'd really like to let you know how grateful, impressed and res assured we are at the excellent service.

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Response from Esther Thomas, Governance Administrator, NHS 111, Kernow Health CIC 2 years ago
Esther Thomas
Governance Administrator, NHS 111,
Kernow Health CIC
Submitted on 17/06/2021 at 11:30
Published on Care Opinion on 18/06/2021 at 09:42


Dear Grateful Mum TR8

My name is Esther and I am responding on behalf of Cornwall 111.

Thank you for your feedback.. I am sorry it took a few minutes to get through to 111 but I am pleased you found the call handler really helpful and knowledgeable and that 111 were able to arrange an appointment so quickly for your son at Newquay hospital.

We hope you son is recovering well.

Best wishes

Esther

Governance Administrator

Kernow Health CIC

Cornwall 111

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Response from Glenda Shaw, Quality and Service Improvement Lead, Clinical Imaging, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 2 years ago
Glenda Shaw
Quality and Service Improvement Lead, Clinical Imaging,
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Submitted on 21/06/2021 at 10:08
Published on Care Opinion at 10:08


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Dear Grateful Mum TR8

I would like to thank you for taking the time to feedback your experiences of care. It is always very helpful and reassuring to know that our Imaging services are supporting patients in the way that we would want. I will make sure your feedback is passed on to the all the relevant staff groups involved the Radiographers at Newquay X-ray, the MRI team at RCHT and the booking teams.

We would like to wish your son a full and speedy recovery.

Very best wishes

Glenda

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