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"Utterly shocking/ insensitive surgery "

About: Cromwell Medical Centre

I am so disappointed and upset with the constant service with this care provider. A few years ago it was brilliant. Staff and drs were kind, sensitive and helpful. Today was the final straw. After I called exactly at 8am I was put through to an aggressive receptionist. I explained my 2 year old has a fever of 39.5 and my other child (5) was diagnosed with scarlet fever over bank holiday from a dr on 111 call. ( fantastic service from 111- called in less then 2 hours accessed my son and prescribed antibiotics. He followed on to ask about my other children and should they develop symptoms to call my gp urgently. Fast forward today…

The rude aggressive receptionist told me “well you need to pick with child you need to see because dr can’t see both, so pick!” That took my breath away my husband heard this and I was shocked. I said it’s just for more antibiotics etc she said doesn’t matter that I had to pick between the two children. I said my 2 year old has a temperature and isn’t well. She followed on with a rude cold attitude and said I’d get a call back at some point later today. With my pervious experiences I’ve had waiting all day to never be called back I was not convinced. I’ve had multiple calls to 111 and they said the dr at the surgery needs to call me within the hour -8 hours later still nothing! Called the gp surgery to ask if what time roughly to expect a call. She was also not helpful but less rude. There is only one GP in that surgery obviously they don’t have the staff and they have too many patients but rudeness and insensitivity shouldn’t be tolerated. They have signs on the front of their reception but they fail patient care on our side and are awful to deal with. I can never understand people that are so rude and aggressive- why work with public?! The whole surgery is dated and should be shut down and completely replaced by people who care about humanity. I would hate to hear others going through what I’ve been through. My list is endless and negative I can’t even think of one positive about this surgery. Such a shame as it used to be great! I’ve now removed myself from this shambles of a GP surgery- I would never recommend

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Response from Cromwell Medical Centre 11 months ago
Cromwell Medical Centre
Submitted on 31/05/2024 at 11:50
Published on nhs.uk at 11:50


Dear Mrs Evangelou

Many thanks for writing to us. Patients feedback is important in improving our services.

I am sorry that you were not happy with our service(s) on this occasion.

We have gone through your comments and then looked into this particular incident. We investigated into the issue by listening to the telephone recordings and speaking to concerned staff member. These were our findings as below:

We did not find our colleague to be rude over the telephone during any part of the telephone call received; she listened to your concerns and then provided you with the advice. She gave you two options; either to call 111 or to speak to a GP from practice. She also informed you that we are short of appointments and the fact that GP will call you at some point on that day. After this mutual agreement the call was closed as normal. Please note at our practice we do not specify a precise time for a clinician to contact patients. If 111 service mentions that a clinician will call you within one hour it is not our policy). We have got recording of the call in case you would like to listen to it.

We sincerely hope that this will clarify the above matter. Should you require any other information, please do not hesitate to write to us via email address e82079.cromwellmedicalcentre@nhs.net. If you prefer to speak with me, please dial 01992624732 and ask for practice manager.

Yours sincerely

Faisal Ijaz (Mr)

Practice Manager

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