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Written by a patient
30th May 2015


Should be allowed to book appointments in advance. Children and elderly should be given priority no matter how Big or small the problem. Receptionist shouldn't be allowed to decide whether some one should or shouldn't be allowed to speak to a doctor or nurse. Always asked to call at 8am in the morning to book appointment but lines always busy never get through and when you do no appoinmets left. But when you actually go in to surgery it's always empty, so why can't you get appointment? Not everyone's at home at 8am in the morning, people are working, dropping kids to school, and when u call after 9am no appoinments left. The 111 service is amazing much better than the GP surgery. GP surgery should follow or do some of the things they do. I am very disappointed with the service I received recently as it concerned my 3 year old and was told by receptionist to call back the following day at 8am. I asked to be put on a treage list which was closed due to high call volumes and this was at 10:30am. I had to raise my voice before I was able to speak to a nurse. The nurse wasn't flexiable at all in giving me a choice of time for the appoinment, was told to take it or leave it. I had to pick up my other child from school at the same time, couldn't be in 2 places at the same time. GP surgery practice services are mostly poor. I have had some great experiences too, but this particular incident was apporling.

9th June 2015
Response from Leacroft Medical Practice

Thank you for your feedback. We try to accommodate all urgent cases on the day especially any vulnerable patients. These could be elderly, children or persons who are disadvantaged. The call handlers may ask some questions in order to prioritise the urgent cases and our clinicians are all highly trained and will respond to urgent requests on the day. We are a GP surgery and therefore do not offer walkin services, but our advisors will always offer the urgent treatment centre as an alternative if a call back is not suitable for the patient and the patient tells us that their case is urgent. We are limited on the times we can offer for urgent cases and it is of course the patient's choice whether to attend the appointment on offer or visit the urgent treatment centre to attend to their needs. We hope that our service provides the most needy with access and always try and help our patients to access the most appopriate service to meet their needs. We would not encourage patients to raise their voice to our staff as this is not an acceptable way to obtain assistance, mutual respect enables a good, robust doctor/patient relationship.

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