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"Reception staff really rude "

About: Foster Building

I have been undergoing some tests for various issues. Everytime I ring the reception, I am made to feel like a massive inconvenience at this practice which isn’t how you want to be made to feel when you don’t feel well in yourself anyway. This gives me such intense anxiety that I avoid calling and would rather make appointments online to avoid calling up. A few weeks ago, the receptionist rang me and I asked if I can make an appointment, she responded ‘no you can’t, we don’t do prebooked appointments’ I was taken aback by this, as apparently this GP only do ‘emergency’ appointments now, which made me feel bad to take up an emergency appointment as my appointment was not necessarily an emergency. The receptionist persisted to be rude to me, asking what was wrong and when I told her, she said ‘have you taken any paracetamol?’ as if I wouldn’t have tried that. I then asked her if she thought It was worth seeing the doctor over to which she replied ‘how would I know? I’m not a Dr am I’ which is fair enough, but the tone in which it was said was so rude and I could hear staff laughing in the background, I work in healthcare myself so I get the pressures but it’s totally unprofessional, there is no service with a smile. I was also given the wrong details and when the receptionist was told, they didn’t apologise; they just carried on as if nothing had happened. Makes me so anxious to come to this practice.

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Response from Foster Building nearly 2 years ago
Foster Building
Submitted on 18/07/2023 at 09:22
Published on nhs.uk on 19/07/2023 at 15:07


I am sorry to see you have rated the Medical Centre so poorly and have had such negative experiences with our reception team. We want our patients to have the best experience possible, so I am sorry this has not been the case for you.

The majority of appointments can only be booked 'on the day' because our previous system of allowing all appointments to be booked in advance resulted in an extremely high number of appointments not being attended, and therefore going to waste, when they were very much needed by other patients.

We offer telephone consultations and face to face consultations with both GPs and Advanced Clinical Practitioners.

If you would like to discuss this further, please give me a call on 01772 970079 or e-mail me at fiona.greenbank@nhs.net.

Fiona Greenbank

Patient Engagement Manager

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