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Betsy Everett's avatar

My husband, who’s registered blind, receives appointment letters for various eye conditions (glaucoma, macular degeneration and a problem with blocked veins at the back of his eyes - can’t remember the technical term), which never make it clear which treatment he’s attending for: I have to call and ask. Appointments may be on adjacent days, or just two or three days apart. They can’t co-ordinate them. We also receive texts with exactly the same info. It’s so wasteful of everyone’s time and energy.

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paul teare's avatar

AE twice last year. Once broken smallbone on foot. They managed tomess upxrays 3 times. Treatment consisted of, " Tape it up yourself" . And " Buy the tape too"

2nd time was vision issue lateone night. Spent from 11pmto 930am.sat on arse. Some idiot took my bp. I was sitting down with my arms folded and cuff fell off which idiot put on the idiot insisted on recording rezults. Dr was actually v good. Arranged specialist optician same day. Equally good. Nhs is like airport departure in 3rd world country. Dirty tatty run doqn inept and incompetent. When i had xray/ mri done privately it was clean polite polished and profezzional.

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