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"Appalling On Line Service "

About: Gillies & Overbridge Medical P/Ship

I have so far had 2 unsuccessful attempts to speak to my GP following major surgery. Having eventually been given a phone consultation, the GP took the first 3 minutes of my phone "appointment" to read my notes and then proceeded to tell me I would need to book another appointment as I had used up my allotted time for that call despite having some unanswered questions.

Having then booked a 2nd appointment for a week later specifically requesting to speak to a GP, I received a text message instead. I rang the surgery and after the typical 90 minute wait to get through the receptionist advised I would have to make yet another appointment and hung up the phone whilst I was still talking to them. I presume your response to these comments will be quicker than the 40 days you allow yourselves to respond to formal complaints.

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Response from Gillies & Overbridge Medical P/Ship 3 years ago
Gillies & Overbridge Medical P/Ship
Submitted on 28/09/2021 at 13:10
Published on nhs.uk at 14:20


Thank you for your feedback and we are sorry that you have had this experience. You can add a complaint via our website that will enable us to investigate what has happened and, where appropriate, take remedial action if we are not working in the way we expect the team to.

With regard to our call waiting time, we are sorry that patients are having to wait a long time to speak to the team. We are actively recruiting more staff to help us deal with exceptionally high call volumes. Generally we are now receiving the number of calls equivalent to those we would usually see each week, but for each day we are open. This equates to c2000 per day. We have a number of new team members starting in the next weeks so hope this situation improves going forward.

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