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"Communication is non existent! Really poor..."

About: Liverpool Womens Hospital

First of all this is my first review I have never ever written a review on anything in my 28 years of life.

I have decided that it is important that I write my review honestly as possible. As I have worked in customer service for 10years of my life, I am aware of people complaining with no real reason. However saying that I have picked up on 'good customer service standards' and the Hewitt Centre is be far anywere near 'any type of standards in customer care'.

The lack of patient care is appalling! Nobody seems to take any type of ownership of your 'case'. I was never treated as an individual, nobody ever took responsibility to call your back with any type of update on your results exact..

Nobody gives you a precise costing of anything for example... A AMH blood test cost £95 so you pay the money, than wait an agonising week for the results, you call up and speak to a nurse (this takes a good hours on hold) the nurse eventually answers and advises 'no tests are allowed to be giving over the telephone, you have to pay another £115 to get a follow up appointment with a consultant' ...so basically the AMH isn't £95 it's £210!!!

There's absolutely no compassion in anything at the Hewitt Centre when they are dealing with yourself. It's with such a heavy heart I write this review as with anybody dealing with infertility it's a really hard thing to deal with.

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Response from Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust 6 years ago
We are preparing to make a change
Submitted on 28/04/2017 at 16:19
Published on Care Opinion at 16:41


We are sorry that you have had an unsatisfactory experience of our service. We are currently looking at the self-funding patient pathway to introduce a system whereby if self-funding patients need an AMH blood test we will facilitate having this before the first consultation so that the doctor seeing the patient in clinic will have the results available. We hope that this will make the first appointment more meaningful and reduce the need for patients to return for follow-up appointments to discuss initial test results.

We do appreciate how stressful fertility treatments can be. Without further identifying information I am unable to give a more detailed response to your concerns. If however you wish to provide identifying details I will ensure that your case notes are reviewed in order to further address the issues you have raised.

You can contact us via our Patient Experience Team on 0151 702 4353 or via email on PALS@lwh.nhs.uk

Kind regards

Christine Malone, Matron for the Hewitt Fertility Centre

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