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"Poor consideration for Patient Journey"

About: New Stobhill Hospital / Gynaecology Clinic

(as a service user),

I have been waiting on gynaecology appointments, received a telephone consultation in august, the doctor was very encouraging, supportive and I felt listened to. I was advised that the One Stop Clinic would be the best course of action for me and we would discuss further treatments at this clinic, I was advised I would be seen as urgent and received an appointment days later for September with another doctor. That appointment was cancelled and rescheduled for October with yet another doctor, I turned up to appointment at Clinic F in Stobhill only to find out that clinic had been cancelled and the consultant I was seeing was not even in the building at the time. I should have received a letter back in September with a new date. Which I have not received. The lady on reception was very apologetic and even printed off the letter that I should have received. My new appointment is now May 2025! Now for someone that was to be seen as urgent, with an appointment originally in September to be re-scheduled again for 7 months later as no other clinics are available until then..... I don't understand why clinics are not ongoing throughout the year and if they only happen twice a year there must be other ways of seeing patients. Patients that are already waiting months (personally over a year plus). On this occasion I feel the patient journey has lacked empathy, we are on waiting lists for a reason, lack of consideration for the QOL of patients while waiting on appointments that are continually re-scheduled is affecting mental health and physical health. There has been no reason given for clinics being cancelled or as to why 7 months is an acceptable timescale. This isnt even for a procedure, this appointment is the initial appointment to get onto another list for procuedure. It's totally unacceptable in my opinion. 

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Response from Nikki Harvey, Lead nurse -Gynaecology, Gynaecology, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 5 months ago
Nikki Harvey
Lead nurse -Gynaecology, Gynaecology,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Submitted on 24/10/2024 at 15:04
Published on Care Opinion at 15:04


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Dear tucanasy64,

Thank you for offering feedback.

This is very disappointing to hear and is not the level of care we aim to deliver.

Please contact me on the e-mail below and I can look into this for you:

Nikki.Harvey@nhs.scot

Kind regards,

Nikki

Nikki Harvey Lead Nurse Gynaecology/ACS

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