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"The appointment timings are never ..."

About: Heartlands Hospital

(as a relative),

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The appointment timings are never kept up. My child (10 days old) was recommended to be seen by a doctor in the hospital. we went there at 11:30 AM and were waiting in the waiting room, when they attended us finally at 3:45 PM.

If you thought this was an one off incident, we were called for a followup review after 2 days at 12:15 PM. Since this was given by the doctor, believed that the appointment will be over in an hour or so.... But, Waiting, waiting, waiting, the doctor did not arrive until 4:00 PM....

Atleast they should be considerate of the small 2 week old child and not make it wait for over 4 hours!

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Response from Heartlands Hospital 15 years ago
Heartlands Hospital
Submitted on 21/07/2008 at 10:05
Published on nhs.uk on 01/08/2008 at 01:00


Apologies you were not kept informed of why the wait was necessary. Unfortunately delays are often unavoidable to deal with unexpected emergencies either wihin the department or elsewhere in the hospital.

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