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"Gone to pieces since takeover"

About: The Surgery

Been at this doctors 16 years with no trouble. One Medical Group takes over and it falls apart. Rude and cold "receptionist" who responded to my annoyance at not being able to book an appointment (despite them sending me a message saying I needed an "urgent" one with a sarcastix "oh yes it's sad isn't it you'll just have to ring every day til we have one". Ringing to book weeks in advance to be told there is "no schedule" but they are fully booked for the next 2 weeks. Every single one of my repeat prescriptions (that I've had for psychiatric illness) since they took over has been wrong, in one case vital daily psych meds were "withheld" til I'd seen the doc yet I couldn't book in for 3 weeks- I had to leave work early and stage a sit in protest to get my medication. And "the system" continually sends me snotty letters at my home demanding I book an appointment which I can't I've tried. All of this, all of this, only happened after the take over. They've spent a lot of money on nice plastic graphics for the walls boasting about patient and satisfaction though, *well done* on that. If I ran my work as badly as this place, and was as rude to customers as that receptionist, I'd now be unemployed.

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Response from The Surgery 7 years ago
The Surgery
Submitted on 13/02/2017 at 13:08
Published on nhs.uk on 19/10/2017 at 14:31


Hello and thank you for your comments. I am sorry it has taken a while to respond. I am sure you understand that I am not able to comment on your specific problems but would be happy to look into this should you wish to contact us directly. When we took over the management of the surgery from the previous GP Partner we had a number of issues to resolve which meant the surgery did not operate as efficiently as we would like. I think we have made a number of positive changes to the practice which mean most of the issues you describe have been rectified? I apologise for the poor service last year and I do hope you have seen a vast improvement?

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