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"Referral almost 2 months ago and ignored so far"

About: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

My daughter was referred to the Suffolk Wellbeing Service in January. Over 1 month passed and we had heard nothing so I emailed the service and 5 days later received a response to say a relevant manager will be in touch. A couple of days later I had a voicemail left on my mobile so I called back and had to leave a message. I have phoned back again today and left another message, but it's now been nearly two months since the referral and we've not had one single piece of information by letter, email or phone. Completely understand that there will be waiting lists etc., but initially informing people so they know what to expect would be good. Just a basic acknowledgement would be a bonus as I don't even know if my daughter is in the system! When people are brave enough to come forward for support the last thing they need is to be ignored.

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Response from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust 7 years ago
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Submitted on 21/03/2017 at 09:48
Published on nhs.uk on 22/03/2017 at 02:41


We would like to apologise for the experiences that you have described and would very much like the opportunity to make contact with you to understand what went wrong in our processes for this to happen. We are always keen to improve and want to ensure that this situation does not happen again in the future. We would also like to speak to you about options for support from the wellbeing service so we do hope you will make direct contact with us again.

If you are happy to speak with us, you are welcome to email with your contact details and we will then call you back. Our email is: wellbeingsuffolk@nsft.nhs.uk. Please mark your email: ‘For the attention of the Deputy Clinical Lead’.

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