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About: West Middlesex University Hospital

My daughter is studying abroad in London this semester. She will be there 4.5 months in total. She came to your A&E today with a fever, chills and extremely sore and swollen throat and glands. After an hour of waiting she was told she could not be seen. That you "don't really do nose and throat". Are you not a hospital?? She was sent away and told to go to a drug store to buy throat spray for the pain but she couldn't be seen or get any prescription medication. She has health insurance through her study abroad program and had a credit card to pay for any services that she needed. How do you turn away a sick student who will be living in your country for months and is capable of paying for any services needed? Here in the United States we never turn away anyone. Whether they are citizens or not, whether they can pay or not. As I said, I am sickened by this incident and can't wait for my daughter to come home.

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Response from West Middlesex University Hospital 10 years ago
West Middlesex University Hospital
Submitted on 25/02/2014 at 16:54
Published on nhs.uk on 26/02/2014 at 03:00


We are very sorry to hear you are disappointed with the treatment your daughter received. We would like to review the details of this further and would ask you, or your daughter, to contact our PALS team on 0800 953 0363 or email pals.hrch@nhs.net, so we can investigate. Given the symptoms you describe, it is likely the best place for your daughter to have received any treatment would have been with her GP or at a pharmacy. We aim to ensure people have the right support to choose the best choice for treatment and the NHS have a dedicated phone line to do this. Anyone who does not know where best to access any treatment they require should call 111 from any phone line.

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