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Jayne B. 2 years ago • From Google

Rating

Bad

Phone queues made accessing care nearly impossible

I share the frustrations expressed by many other reviewers regarding this practice. When appointments with the medical team are accessible, the clinical care provided is of a high standard. However, the persistent difficulties with the communications infrastructure and insufficient capacity to deliver an adequate service to all patients is deeply concerning. These systemic issues appear to be placing patients at potential risk of missing important health developments and experiencing complications from medication that lacks proper oversight. I found myself without essential medication today as a result of multiple failures. The online appointment system has been non-functional for the past week, telephone access has been unavailable for the same period, during which I spent considerable time attempting to reach the practice through phone queues across several days, including an extended wait before eventually giving up. When I attended in person today, reception declined to arrange an appointment face-to-face, refused to process an emergency prescription, and provided inaccurate guidance regarding alternative services for obtaining urgent medication. I was advised to contact the out-of-hours service to obtain an emergency prescription, as processing through the surgery would take several days. Following this direction, I contacted the out-of-hours service online and received instructions to collect medication from a designated pharmacy. The pharmacy staff were helpful and professional, but were unable to dispense the medication. They explained that responsibility lay with my own surgery, as they had failed to maintain my repeat prescriptions by not completing the necessary annual medication safety assessments. The out-of-hours service operates outside standard hours, and since the surgery remained open, they should have been the ones to provide the emergency prescription. With both the surgery and pharmacy closing at the same time, I remained without my medication. This situation left me feeling passed between different services without resolution. My prescriptions were unavailable to order online because the surgery had not completed the required annual medication reviews in a timely manner. These reviews are essential because my medications carry risks that require regular monitoring to prevent serious complications. This represents a significant gap in the standard of patient care expected.

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