The Hadleigh Lodge Practice |
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3.6 
29 Reviews The Hadleigh Lodge Practice 216A Wareham Road, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3LN Phone : Web :http://www.thehadleighprac.. Email :. EPS : Available Status :
The Hadleigh Lodge Practice is a GP Practice in Wimborne and provides a list of services listed below if available. This GP practice has 28 reviews with a rating of 3.6 out of 5. |
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 | By: | Anonymous |
| Oct 4 2019 | ||
Trying to get an appointment is a nightmare. I fully understand anyone just giving up. The female doctors are much better at listening, understanding and helping you. They must be short of funding. | ||||||
| By: | Anonymous |
| Aug 23 2019 | ||
Firstly, I would like to say how much I appreciate the good work done by all the staff at this practice, although there is an issue with GP appointments which are in short supply. We have some excellent GPs, nurses and support staff. This review is based solely on the principle that has been adopted by this practice of “triage by receptionist”. I can understand the idea behind this, i.e. that the receptionist can direct patients to the most appropriate, or more likely available, person. The downside of this is the inhibition and sometimes embarrassment caused by having to discuss medical/intimate matters with an unqualified possible member of our community. I do understand that receptionists are bound by confidentiality but this is not at the same level as the ongoing confidentiality which binds GPs under threat of sanction by the GMC. Receptionists, however, leave and go back into their communities. I am particularly concerned about the inhibiting effect of this on patients with mental health problems. I imagine it takes a great deal of courage to raise such issues in the first place without having to discuss them with a receptionist! Please consider the effect of this practice on such patients and whether it is truly in their interests. I think not. | ||||||
| By: | Anonymous |
| Aug 9 2019 | ||
I'd like to leave two separate reviews here although the star rating above is necessarily an average: 1) I have always been impressed and grateful to all the staff (clinical and otherwise) at the practice. The GPs, for instance, are very competent, human and helpful and have no issues whatsoever with them. I am obliged to all the staff for their competence and professionalism. I give 5 stars here. So, now for review number 2): As reported by many other patients it is almost impossible to get an appointment in a timely fashion with any GP, let alone a gp of your choice. I have been quoted 6 weeks to see the gp of my choice (I have a specific condition in which that GP specialises). I do get and understand the message that GP services are under increased pressure but cannot see that the Hadleigh practice is taking substantive measures to address that problem. The obvious answer is to recruit another GP as opposed to tinkering at the edges with new appointment systems, outsourcing, paramedics etc. This is an attractive place to work and live and I would imagine that it would be relatively, at least, easy to recruit an extra GP. You may know that Corfe Mullen is due to undergo massive expansion in the near future. I dread to think that if the Hadleigh practice cannot cope now, how it is going to cope in the future. One of the problems as I see it, and as admitted by you, is that you have too many part timers. If in my employment I had chosen to make such a lifestyle choice, and I was paid well enough to make such a choice, I would feel it my responsibility to make provision to cover my absences. This is particularly important in the medical arena. Many other patients have pointed out the plain obvious: we can’t schedule our illnesses to suit short working practices. Why aren’t you employing sufficient locums to cover the shortfall? Again, I understand that, like the rest of us, GPs deserve and need time off, but if you are choosing to work at such a stretch then patient care will inevitably suffer. I think that you need to put a plan of action place to address the fundamental problems that you (and we!) are experiencing. | ||||||
