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No patient transport for my urgent clinic appointment

Posted By woman

"No patient transport for my urgent clinic appointment"

About: North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust / Patient transport service Salford Royal / Nephrology

(as the patient),

I booked Patient Transport for today about 3 weeks ago with regard to the fitting of a Fistula.

I had been wating nearly 2 hours and decided to ring them the lady said they hadn't got a vehicle for me and she would contact the operator and find out. I asked her if she would let Renal know I would be late.

And she phoned me back to say the nurses had said the Doctor won't wait and they cancelled the appointment. I now have to wait another month for an appointment which I believe is urgent.

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Response from Deborah Gallagher, Patient Experience Support Officer, Patient Experience, North West Ambulance Service 8 years ago
Deborah Gallagher
Patient Experience Support Officer, Patient Experience,
North West Ambulance Service

Submitted on 05/06/2015 at 13:28
Published on Care Opinion at 15:02

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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We are very sorry to hear about this incident and would like an opportunity to explore this further so that we can find out what happened and so try to ensure that a situation like this does not happen in the future.

If you do wish to take this further and share some further details with us, if you could contact our Patient Experience team either by email at patient.experience@nwas.nhs.uk or by phone: 0345 112 6500 between the hours of 10am and 3pm, Monday to Friday.

As it was Salford Royal that you were travelling to North West Ambulance Service provides Patient Transport to this hospital for patients who live in the Cheshire, Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire area. If however you do live in the Manchester area, then you will need to contact Arriva Transport Solutions about this incident. They can be contacted at patientcustomerservices@arriva.co.uk

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Response from Salford Royal 8 years ago
Salford Royal

Submitted on 14/07/2015 at 16:19
Published on nhs.uk on 15/07/2015 at 02:30

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We are very sorry to hear about this incident and would like an opportunity to explore this further so that we can find out what happened and so try to ensure that a situation like this does not happen in the future. If you do wish to take this further and share some further details with us, if you could contact the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) Patient Experience team either by email at patient.experience@nwas.nhs.uk or by phone: 0345 112 6500 between the hours of 10am and 3pm, Monday to Friday. As it was Salford Royal that you were travelling to it is NWAS who provides Patient Transport to this hospital for patients who live in the Cheshire, Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire area. If however you do live in the Manchester area, then you will need to contact Arriva Transport Solutions about this incident. They can be contacted at patientcustomerservices@arriva.co.uk.

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