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"Cancelled operation"

About: Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary / Care of the Elderly/Elderly Medicine

(as the patient),

I arrived at hospital at 8am for left knee total replacement I spoke with surgeon who told me that as far as they were aware there was no bed for me but to wait and see if one became available,

I then sat and waited a further 2 hrs to be completely ignored by all members of staff in the ward, not once did anyone come over and say they would be with me shortly or that they were trying to find me a bed in fact I was never even asked my name, in fact from entering the main entrance of the hospital to my surgeon coming back at 10am to apologise that my surgery had been cancelled did any member of staff speak to me, the main entrance and ward entrance were un-manned, I felt completely isolated and let down by hospital and staff apart from surgeon what was only person to show any form of humanity or civility 

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Response from Annette Finnigan, Senior Patient Experience & Safety Officer, Acute and Diagnostic Services Directorate, NHS Dumfries and Galloway 6 years ago
Annette Finnigan
Senior Patient Experience & Safety Officer, Acute and Diagnostic Services Directorate,
NHS Dumfries and Galloway

I am a Senior Patient Experience & Safety Officer for Acute and Diagnostic Services

Submitted on 16/01/2018 at 08:28
Published on Care Opinion at 09:31


Dear Macruby1,

I am so sorry to hear about your poor experience at the hospital.

We would like the opportunity to look into this in more detail to identify what went wrong and what improvements can be made. If you would like to contact us directly on either 01387 241379 or dumf-uhb.acutecomplaints@nhs.net we can take more details and investigate further.

Regards,

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