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"Doctors are good but reception are rude "

About: Leen View Surgery

This doctors seems to have lovely staff however the reception bar one staff member on there have been the worst part about my visit here. The staff are rude, make comments about you to one another while you’re on the phone, don’t read your notes regarding times to contact and preferred contact methods. I am a carer myself and work night shifts and specified this on an online appointment request form, after chasing up the appointment and trying to book one in the meantime (with no luck) I waited out the online form, I had two miss calls on a morning I specifically said not to contact me on, this was written in my notes and also on my online form. I called back the number and realised it was the doctors to my confusion and stated to them when I managed to get through that I had two missed calls and didn’t know why, this was then met with a very brief explanation, chats and comments with the colleagues next to them and followed by a rude comment basically saying I should have picked up if it was needed, I then stated that I work nights to be met with the response of “you should have stayed this in your form”, I explained that I did in both my appointment notes and personal notes on my profile and then they just said “you’ll have to try again we have nothing for you, bye”. I wouldn’t have minded as much because everyone has bad days and such where they forget things despite it being in a basic job description but there wasn’t even an apology and that’s the part that bothered me the most. If there was a simple apology rather than being brushed off and hung up on I would have came away from the conversation more happier than I did.

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Response from Leen View Surgery 2 weeks ago
Leen View Surgery
Submitted on 09/04/2024 at 13:55
Published on nhs.uk at 13:55


Dear Patient

Thank you for your feedback. I am Debra Juett, Practice Manage at Leen View Surgery. I would like to offer my sincere apologies for the poor experience you received from our surgery. I read from your feedback that your contact with us was not satisfactory. There seems to be a lot of issues with your contact with us and you did not get the desired outcome. If our staff came across as rude and unhelpful then I apologise again. I will use your feedback as an anonymous example at a staff meeting to try and improve our service and the way in which calls are handled. If you would like to speak to me directly I would welcome you to contact me to discuss this matter further. Please contact the surgery and ask for me personally and I will get back to you.

Kind regards

Debra Juett

Practice Manager

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