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"West Kent Eye Centre; Impossible telephone..."

About: Princess Royal University Hospital / Ophthalmology

I had an appointment for 2.30 p.m on Tuesday 28th August

for which i knew i was running late.

lSo - I telephoned to advise my pending lateness and apologise & to get a later time or

date.

I telephoned at 1.25 p.m. and was asked by message to hold as all operatives were busy;

and that i was No. 9 'in the queue'.

So i held and the sequence of events whilst holding was:- at 1.40 'you are No. 8 in the queue; at 1.55 p.m 'you are No. 7; at 2.13 pm you are

No.6 ; at 2.15 pm you are No.5; at 3.15 p.m 'you are no.5 in the queue.

So - after a total of 2 hours holding i gave up !

And rang off !

I decided yesterday (29th August) to call again. Sequence of call 0948 a.m ; message asked me to hold as was N0. 3 in the queue ; at 10.08 a.m was No 2 in the queue; at 10.50 a.m was No 1; this was repeated until 12.18 a.m !!

I then gave up and aborted the call.

What a system ; what a problem there must be ?

Any answer ???

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Response from Princess Royal University Hospital 5 years ago
Princess Royal University Hospital
Submitted on 06/09/2018 at 18:35
Published on nhs.uk at 19:06


I am very sorry to hear about the poor experience you had trying to get in touch with the Opthalmology Department at the Princess Royal.

This is not acceptable and I will be passing your comments to the Manager in charge and also to our transformation team who are in the middle of a large scale project to improve outpatients for our patients.

Will also copy to our ICT department.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience and frustration that I am sure this has caused you.

Kind regards.

Jessica

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